Indian Corona Virus Vaccine "COVAXIN" gets approved in India for Phase I and Phase II

India's regulator, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization has approved Bharat Biotech India to conduct human clinical trials for its 'COVAXIN'.  Phase I and Phase II trials start in July 2020

Bharath Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research's(ICMR) National Institute of Virology(NIV)

Others in the queue:

Zydus Cadilla

Serum Institute of India

Panacea Biotec

More here: http://bitly.ws/8V7B

再见 Hong Kong

Good-Bye Hong Kong

But, there are protests:

Picture source: 

http://bitly.ws/8V52

It is so unfortunate!

Covid-19 Vaccine Developer line up 2020-2021

These are the major companies and the research entities that are hopeful of developing a vaccine. The timeline for delivering a solution is in 2020 - 2021 as of now. Who will make it to the finish line?

The table is copied from Nippon Keizai Shinbun. The last column is my addition for my English audience.

Hopefully, we can get past this universal bug.

Why should you learn Python?

There is great value in learning Python.

You may want to read this link to learn the use cases of Python.

Insurance: creating business insights with machine learning
Retail banking: flexible data transformation and manipulation
Aerospace: meeting software system deadlines
Finance: data mining to identity cross-sell opportunities
Business services: API access to financial information
Hardware: automating network administration
Healthcare: predicting disease prognosis
Consulting services: bespoke web development
InfoTech: IT modernization
Software: adding extensibility to legacy applications

Source:
https://www.activestate.com/resources/datasheets/top-10-python-use-cases/


Python is also used for backend in Web Applications where it is used for scripting
2) Desktop GUI Applications.
3) Software Development. ...
4) Scientific and Numeric. ...
5) Business Applications. ...
6) Console Based Application. ...
7) Audio or Video-based Applications. ...
8) 3D CAD Applications.

For more applications read here:
https://intersog.com/blog/python-application-development-common-use-cases-and-project-examples/

Read all Python-related posts in this blog:
https://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/search?q=python

Butchered by the Chinese on the heights of the Himalayas

He went there to serve the country and he fell defending it.

Chinese are flexing their muscle to grab more land in the Ladakh area. During the most recent, serious skirmish, we lost one of our sons. May his soul rest in peace.

Colone B. Santosh Babu

File picture: Colonel B Santosh Babu|Photo Credit: IANS

Source: AFP
Image caption
The cremation ceremony for one of the Indian soldiers killed took place on Thursday

Here is a picture of a club of sorts that appears to have been used in the brawl.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53089037

It is crude even by MING standards!

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1273649248941117441

Hard to figure this one out in Excel

There is such a thing called a rogue!

It did once in all these years (30 yrs) I have used EXCEL. I simply cannot figure it out. I include a screenshot of what I observed.

As a workaround, I deleted the line and recreated it. Everything OK.

This is the latest on Corona Virus Vaccine testing in the coming days

Fast-tracking the Corona Virus Vaccine from the Wall Street Journal.

How do you access financial data like stock portfolio using MS Excel?

I know a couple of ways. I describe two of them.

First Method:

Excel has a built-in data type called Stock that you can use.

StockDataType-0.png

This allows you to do most things with the stock portfolio.

Details here:
https://hodentek.blogspot.com/2020/05/three-easy-steps-to-work-on-your-stock.html

Although you can get most information of a stock, still some data such as 'dividned' is not available. Microsoft may change and add this as well.

Second Method:
It is easy to import financial data from a site such as Yahoo. The following steps show with step-by-step screen shots how you may get the data in the Yahoo's web page. The next screen shown uses the ribbon to get data from WEB.

In the URL type in the Yahoo URL for the Quote page filtering MSFT (Microsoft).

Click OK and you may need to wait it out.

Stick with anonymous. That's OK. I

In the above, click Connect.

 Well. have patience.

The Navigator shows up.

All that remains is for you to choose the data in the web page.

The following are the ones for Document, Table1, Table2 and Table 3.

Table 2 has the Dividend information.

Covid-19 Vaccine Hopefuls

Here is a list of vaccine hopefuls to combat the new coronavirus Covid-19.

https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/20/05/16056298/these-6-coronavirus-vaccine-candidates-are-the-likeliest-to-succeed-says-morgan-sta

According to BGR, a leading online destination for news and commentary focused on the mobile and consumer electronics markets, these are the companies/institutions that are further in bringing in a vaccine for the coronavirus.

According to Fauci, the new coronavirus is not addressed by a vaccine that can provide lifetime immunity and, at best it can provide immunity up to 12 months. It appears to change with time just like the cold virus. He notes with optimism that 100s of millions of doses may be available by 2021.

https://bgr.com/2020/06/03/fauci-vaccine-comments-coronavirus-immunity-length/