The first patient enrolled in Pfizer’s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

This afternoon

Pfizer Inc had on Monday disclosed that its experimental vaccine which it is jointly developing with BioNTech was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data from a large study, in the ongoing phase 3 trials.

This disclosure was made in a statement by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, on Monday, November 9, 2020.

Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE are the first drugmakers to show successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. The companies said they have so far found no serious safety concerns and expect to seek U.S. emergency use authorization later this month.

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Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says Pfizer (The Guardian)

Scullion – Eyelids Into Snow

Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, reader Paulus puts his hands together for folk veterans Scullion, who came of age at the 1980 Lisdoonvarna festival.

Eyelids Into Snow is taken from their second album Balance And Control released in 1980 and produced by the late, great John Martyn.

Paulus writes:

“This is the original line-up with the late Greg Boland, Philip King‘s high harmonies and gentleman-troubadour Sonny Condell.”


Nick says: Snow business.

Scullion

This morning.

M50 footbridge, Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin.

Halfahead writes:

Most people seem a little happier after the weekend. There is always some light at the end of the tunnel.

Or oncoming tunnel monster?

WE may never know.

From top: Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, Cork; St Jospeh’s Cemetery, Cork City

This afternoon.

Cork historian Maureen Considine has revealed that a resident of Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, run by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus, is buried under a false name ‘after being denied her true identity even in death’.

The woman is named as Anne Walsh in archival documents.

However, a plot at  St Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork city, identifies her as Doris Walsh

Via EchoLive:

Ms Considine explained that many women were given “house names” after entering the residence.

She has been working with Bessborough survivors to seek justice for women they claim were stripped of their identities.

The Mayfield woman, along with survivors she is working with, is calling on Bessborough nuns to replace such headstones and restore the birth names of mothers who passed away at the facility.

She is also calling for unmarked graves to be acknowledged with headstones, in a bid to prevent the whitewashing of history.

“This was something I felt I couldn’t ignore,” said Ms Considine.

“Restoring these women’s real names is asking so little. If a gesture like this can’t be honoured, we have to ask ourselves how far we’ve really come in our treatment of women and girls.”

‘Why should someone have the power to take away someone’s identity?’: Cork Mother and Baby home resident buried under ‘house name (EchoLIve)

Thanks Breeda

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