RIP: Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine

J&J requested the FDA to withdraw the vaccine's authorization for use in the USA after the last stockpiled supplies expired about a month ago, and the FDA did so.

J&J had no plans to reformulate the vaccine for new strains. They suffered tremendous loss of market share and public confidence after a kerfuffle over a clotting disorder with a similar vaccine led to a huge plunge in demand for their vaccine.

I personally am quite glad for the reformulated vaccines. Now, I am an edge-case: I have an immune disorder and don't produce antibodies, so vaccines are sometimes weird on me. On every Covid vaccination that I received, I ran a low-grade fever for a couple of days afterwards. But my last shot was the new bi-valent, and it was smooth sailing - no fever! I don't know if it was because it was formulated against multiple strains, or something had been done to smooth it out or what, but it was a much nicer ride for me.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/06/j-fda-revokes-authorization/

Dell in BIIIIG trouble in Australia for not discounting the price of apparently discounted monitors

Oooh, this was a sneaky one! The investigated period, from August '19 to the middle of December '21, they looked at people buying systems at the Australian Dell web site. People would see a monitor with a high price that was struck through and a lower price displayed. What people didn't know was that the lower price was in many cases actually higher than the price that they would pay if they'd bought the monitor on its own!

During the time in question, "...shoppers spent over $2 million Australian dollars ($1.33 million USD) on 5,300 add-on monitors..."

LUCY! YOU HAVE SOME 'SPLAININ' TO DO! IN THE COURT ROOM!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/