Two Kansas City Cops Charged With Assaulting Transgender Woman

A grand jury says the officers used excessive force when arresting Brianna Hill in Kansas City, Mo., last year.

www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/18/two-kansas-city-cops-charged-assaulting-transgender-woman

Scientists announce breakthrough in new PrEP drug that only needs to be taken every two months

Anyone who hates taking a pill a day, or has trouble remembering doing so, take heed. Pharmaceutical company GSK has announced the development of a new anti-HIV drug for prep which only requires one injected dose every two months.

PinkNews reports that GSK claims to have stopped early testing of the drug after it proved 69% more effective at preventing the transmission of HIV than oral PrEP. At present, patients take either a one-a-day oral dose of the drugs Truvada or Descovy.

The pharmaceutical company tested the new drug, cabotegravir, on 4,600 people in North and South America, Africa and Asia. The trial included gay and bisexual men as well as transgender women. 50 people in the study contracted HIV. Of those, 12 had tried the new injection while 38 took the daily pill.

Related: UK’s health service to offer PrEP nationwide

“These study results demonstrate that long-acting injectable cabotegravir dosed every two months can successfully reduce HIV acquisition in at-risk MSM and transgender women,” Kimberly Smith, head of research and development at HIV company ViiV Healthcare, said of the results. ViiV Healthcare is a subsidiary of GSK.

“We are thrilled with the results not only because of the high efficacy of cabotegravir but also because we have demonstrated high efficacy in a study that adequately represents some of the populations most disproportionately impacted by HIV — Black MSM in the US, young MSM globally and transgender women.”

Previous studies have found PrEP to be more than 99% effective at preventing HIV transmission–more effective than condoms–when taken correctly. Still, some patients report difficulty accessing or remembering to take a daily dose of Truvada or Descovy for HIV prevention.

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Trump Tells Stunned Reporters: ‘I Happen to Be Taking Hydroxychloroquine Right Now’ — WATCH

Donald Trump told a stunned room of reporters on Monday that he’s been taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been shown to cause potentially fatal heart problems, for a week and a half just in case he gets the coronavirus.

FLASHBACK: Don Lemon Rips Trump’s ‘I Barely Know The Guy’ Routine on Chloroquine After Drug is Revealed to Kill People: WATCH

“I happen to be taking. I’m taking it. Hydroxychloroquine. Right now, yeah. Couple of weeks ago, started taking it. Cause I think it’s good, I’ve heard a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’m not going to get hurt by it. … I hope to not be able to take it soon. … Hey, people said ‘oh maybe he owns the company. I don’t own the company. I want the people of this nation to feel good. I don’t want them being sick.”

Even FOX News is stunned.

Said Neil Cavuto: “If you are in a risky population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment … it will kill you. I cannot stress enough. This will kill you.”

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Martin Shkreli Denied Release for ‘Delusional’ Claim He’ll Cure COVID

Probation officials and a judge weren’t impressed with the “Pharma bro,” who’s now a convicted fraudster.

www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/18/martin-shkreli-denied-release-delusional-claim-hell-cure-covid

Daily Dose: An internet love affair becomes a sprawling scam

Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.

The Relatable: Catfish

First things first: the documentary Catfish doesn’t deal with any over queer content. It does, however, confront the perils of modern web and app based-dating, something which LGBTQ people know a good deal about. The film follows Nev Schulman, a New York photographer who begins receiving fan mail from a young girl in Michigan. He eventually falls for the girl’s beautiful older sister, and the two begin a long-distance affair of sorts. As it progresses, however, certain elements don’t add up, and when Nev goes to Michigan to meet his lover, all hell breaks loose.

We don’t want to say more than that here. The first half of Catfish plays like a Hitchcock thriller, taut with mounting suspense. The second, which features a mix of revelations and plot twists, doesn’t get crazy so much as sad and unexpectedly moving. Why do people create false identities on dating apps and social media? Do they have nefarious reasons, or is something more disturbing going on? The answers in Catfish raise more questions, and will give pause to anyone who has ever wondered if that dream lover seems a bit too good to be true.

Streams on Netflix, Amazon, VUDU, YouTube & iTunes.

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