Multidrug-Resistant Yeast Often Transferred to Hospital Workers' Gloves, Gowns

 

• Candidozyma auris is an emerging, multidrug-resistant yeast that can cause severe, life-threatening infections, particularly in patients who already have serious medical conditions.
• In a prospective cohort study of over 1,000 interactions between healthcare personnel and 109 patients who had current or prior history of C. auris, transfer to gloves and/or gowns occurred in 29%.
• This transfer rate topped the 16% rate observed for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the 10% rate for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in similar studies.

Transfer of Candidozyma auris from hospitalized patients to the gloves and gowns of healthcare personnel (HCP) occurred frequently, with extensive colonization at multiple patient body sites and shedding onto environmental surfaces contributing to transmission, a prospective cohort study showed.

In over 1,000 HCP interactions with 109 patients who had current or prior history of C. auris, transfer to gloves and/or gowns occurred in 29%, reported Lyndsay O'Hara, PhD, MPH, of the University of California Irvine, and colleagues in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

This transfer rate topped the 16% rate observed for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the 10% rate for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in similar studies.

Transfer was higher when HCP touched the patient (OR 3.32, 95% CI 2.3-4.9) compared with touching only an environmental surface, and patients who were colonized at five body sites were 15 times more likely to transfer C. auris to HCP gloves and/or gowns versus those colonized at only one site (OR 15.1, 95% CI 7.5-30.5).

The finding that C. auris is frequently passed to HCP gloves and gowns during routine patient care "reinforces the critical need for meticulous compliance with gloves and gowns and hand hygiene to avoid self-contamination and possible onward transmission of C. auris," O'Hara told MedPage Today.

Also known as Candida auris, C. auris is an emerging, multidrug-resistant yeast that can cause severe, life-threatening infections, particularly in patients who already have serious medical conditions. The first U.S. case was reported in 2016; by 2024, the annual tally had climbed to 6,304 cases, according to the CDC.

In addition to illnesses and deaths, C. auris also imposes significant operational and resource strains on healthcare facilities, O'Hara said, given the need for strict patient isolation protocols and specialized environmental cleaning protocols to control it.

Determining the most effective C. auris prevention measures "is a work in progress," she noted. Current measures include contact precautions such as glove and gown use, as well as chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) baths for patients -- though the best approaches to CHG for decolonization aren't clear. "It is absolutely critical that increased funding be provided to agencies like the CDC and NIH to develop better measures to prevent transmission," O'Hara added.

What's also unclear is the relationship between C. auris transfer from patients to protective gear and consequent infections. "Transmission rates to gloves and gowns seen in the study are higher than subsequent transmission rates to patients and subsequent infection rates among patients," O'Hara cautioned.

O'Hara and team conducted their observational cohort study between July 2022 and May 2024 at nine U.S. acute care hospitals. They collected samples from C. auris patients' bilateral axillae, groin/inguinal creases, finger webs, anterior nares, and stool, as well as environmental surfaces from hospital rooms. They also observed 10 routine patient-HCP interactions in those hospital rooms.

C. auris transfer rates to gloves or gowns were similar in the intensive care unit (ICU; 30%) and non-ICU settings (29%).

Transfer was highest among nursing assistants/patient care technicians (OR 5.2, 95% CI 2.4-11.6), occupational/physical therapists (OR 4.8, 95% CI 1.4-16.7), and respiratory therapists (OR 4.7, 95% CI 1.9-11.7).

Vital sign monitors, supply carts, and ventilators all had a C. auris transfer rate to HCP gloves or gowns of 42%, while handling rectal tubes (55%) and providing wound care (53%) were the patient care activities with the highest transfer rates.

Most C. auris patients (84%) had the pathogen at multiple body sites, with one-third colonized at five body sites. The most frequently colonized body parts were fingers and perirectal areas (77% for each). Samples most likely to be contaminated were stool samples (75%), groin samples (73%), axilla samples (66%), and nares samples (61%).

The environmental surfaces most likely to be contaminated by C. auris were hospital room floors (45%), followed by call buttons and bed rails, both at 30%.

The frequent contamination of items touched by HCP "reinforces that importance of auditing hand hygiene and appropriate use of gowns and gloves with continual feedback to HCP," O'Hara and colleagues noted. "It also highlights the insufficiency of once daily cleaning/disinfection for this high-shed pathogen."

Observations were conducted only during weekdays, which was a study limitation. In addition, culturing of only part of the surface of gloves and gowns was done, which could lead to contamination underestimates. The study didn't assess whether high C. auris transfer rates to gloves or gowns led to subsequent patient transmission.

Disclosures

The study was supported by the CDC.

O'Hara and colleagues reported no disclosures.

Primary Source

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Source Reference: O'Hara LM, et al "Transfer of Candidozyma auris to healthcare personnel gloves and/or gowns from patients and the environment: a multi-center cohort study of 109 patients" Open Forum Infect Dis 2026; DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofag582.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/infectioncontrol/123007

"Completely Beyond The Pale..."

  by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

A newly unveiled memorial to Charlie Kirk was vandalized overnight outside Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix - and TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet says the attack went beyond ordinary graffiti.

On Fox News' America's Newsroom, Kolvet described the damage as "awful, disgusting" and "completely beyond the pale."

Vandals hit an 8-foot bronze statue of Kirk, installed days earlier on the first anniversary of his assassination, with red spray paint.

Paint marked his face with an X, his neck (where he was shot on Sept. 10, 2025), his torso with a frowning face, and his hand.

A nearby memorial sign reading "May Charlie be received into the merciful arms of Jesus, our loving Savior" had Kirk's photo crossed out and the word "Jesus" overwritten with "Satan."

Police later said two people also tried to set a poster on fire before fleeing around 1 a.m. on Sept. 13.

Kolvet said the statue had only just been placed in a temporary spot and was slated to move to a permanent location within days.

"For this to happen overnight and for them to obviously mock Charlie's death, the way he died... it was just so dark and it is kind of a gut punch," he said.

Even people who disagreed with Kirk's politics, he added, should see that "this doesn't need to happen."

TPUSA staff cleaned the statue the same day. Signs can be replaced, Kolvet said. Accountability is the next step. The group is working with Phoenix police and collecting video from nearby buildings.

"People that do this kind of thing, it's not funny," he said.

"You should be held accountable and we're going to work really hard to make sure that's the case."

Police have not publicly identified suspects. The investigation remains open.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/completely-beyond-pale

Carlyle Group’s Jason Thomas warns AI financing mirrors pre-crisis mortgages

 Jason Thomas, Managing Director and Head of Global Research and Investment Strategy at Carlyle Group, is drawing an uncomfortable parallel between today’s AI infrastructure lending boom and the mortgage finance playbook that preceded the 2008 financial crisis. In his report titled “Let Them Eat Compute: Data Centers’ Implications for Mortgage Finance,” Thomas argues that the sheer velocity of capital flowing into AI-related infrastructure is distorting credit markets, pushing interest rates higher, and squeezing out traditional borrowers, particularly in housing. AI infrastructure spending is consuming hundreds of billions of dollars per quarter, compounding at a 40-60% annualized rate.

The capital vacuum

The numbers paint a vivid picture. Hyperscalers have increased their property, plant, and equipment by 50-200% since late 2023, according to Carlyle’s data. Meanwhile, the US 30-year fixed mortgage rate sat at 6.58% as of August 2025. For new homebuyers, the math is punishing. Existing homeowners locked into lower rates years ago are sitting pretty by comparison, creating a two-tier housing market where the haves and have-nots are separated primarily by when they signed their paperwork.

Government spending isn’t helping. Federal deficits are currently 1.5 times larger than the average from 2010 to 2019, adding even more competition for available capital.

Echoes of 2008

Thomas’s comparison to pre-crisis mortgages centers on lender psychology. Data center financing today rests on the assumption that AI demand will keep growing, that the compute capacity being built will find paying customers, and that the revenue streams will justify the debt. The risk is compounded by concentration. A handful of hyperscale companies are driving the majority of this buildout. Carlyle itself has been active in this space. The firm reported a fivefold return from the 2026 sale of its Copia Power platform to EQT.

Carlyle CEO Harvey Schwartz has publicly expressed a positive outlook on the US economy, which suggests the firm sees these risks as manageable rather than existential. But Thomas’s report is clearly designed as a warning shot: the capital markets are being reshaped in real time by AI infrastructure demand, and the lenders enabling that transformation may not be pricing the downside correctly.

https://cryptobriefing.com/carlyle-ai-financing-mirrors-pre-crisis-mortgages/

Judge In Lindsay Clancy Trial Orders Jurors' Identities To Be Sealed Indefinitely

 by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

The judge in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ordered that the jurors' names be sealed indefinitely due to concerns about their privacy.

Judge William Sullivan said on Sept. 14 that the jury list will remain impounded until a new order is issued, citing "a real and present" risk of personal harm to the jurors and to the integrity of their work if the list is made public.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months.

She admitted to strangling her children with exercise bands in the basement of her Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 24, 2023, while her then-husband was running errands. She then cut her wrists and neck and jumped out of a second-story window in a failed suicide attempt, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.

Sullivan said on Monday that the case continues to draw "divisive attention" in Massachusetts and beyond, noting that the flood of social media posts garnering public reactions to the case's deliberations raises issues.

"There have been identifications of jurors and their personal information without their permission, through other sources. At least one juror has requested that the order be extended indefinitely," Sullivan said of the impoundment order.

The judge said that one individual had been arrested and charged with secretly recording jurors as they left Plymouth Superior Court. He did not provide details about the arrest.

The order does not prohibit jurors from identifying themselves or speaking publicly if they choose to.

Sullivan acknowledged that some jurors have spoken to the media since the case ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4, but noted that most have chosen to remain anonymous.

On Sept. 4, the judge declared a mistrial in Clancy's murder trial after the jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Eleven of the 12 jurors favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility for the murder of her three children in 2023.

The defense team asked the judge to remove the holdout juror, but the judge rejected the request.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Sept. 11 post on X that the holdout juror's identity should be protected and accused the media of trying to smear the juror.

DeSantis also said the state of Florida would be willing to provide asylum if the juror is being harassed.

Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington had urged jurors to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, saying she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.

Prosecutors argued that Clancy intentionally planned and executed the deaths of her children.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said on Sept. 4 that his team had not yet decided whether to pursue a second trial. The next hearing is set for Sept. 29.

If found guilty of first-degree murder, Clancy would face life in prison without the possibility of parole. If found not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, she could be committed to a state psychiatric hospital.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-lindsay-clancy-trial-orders-jurors-identities-be-sealed-indefinitely

'Newsom Says He Won't Run For President In 2028 If Kamala Harris Does'

 by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Sept. 14 that he would not run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris decides to make another presidential bid.

"I don't know if she runs, but we'll see," Newsom, a Democrat, told CNN anchor Jake Tapper in an interview.

"I wouldn't run if she ran."

Newsom said that running against Harris, who became the Democratic presidential candidate during the 2024 election after then-President Joe Biden withdrew his bid, would be an electoral gift for their political opponents and "waste everyone's time."

"First of all, electorally, it's a gift from God for everybody else. They'd enjoy the hell out of it. Mutual assured destruction. It services no greater good," the governor said.

When asked about the fact that Harris had launched presidential bids in 2019 and 2024, while Newsom had never run for president, Newsom said that could be an "approach to the campaign," but that he would be competing for the same voters who supported Harris.

"That's objectively true. But I know what that means. I know her base of supporters, I know her friends, the Venn diagram on that is just pure crossover. I wouldn't do that to people," he said.

Harris, who was vice president at the time, lost the 2024 election to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White House for a second term. She previously launched a presidential bid for the 2020 election but dropped out two months before the primary voting began.

Newsom said he was not ready to run for president in 2024.

"If I did, I would have gotten crushed because I didn't have a why. You don't have a big enough why, then you don't belong there," the governor said.

Harris has hinted that she may run for president again in 2028. During the National Action Network's annual convention in New York City in April, Harris said that she was "thinking about" another presidential run.

Harris previously served as California's attorney general before representing the state in the U.S. Senate from 2017 to 2021.

Newsom, who was elected governor in 2018 and won reelection in 2022, is term-limited and cannot seek a third consecutive term. He will leave office in January 2027.

Newsom has not declared a presidential candidacy but said in October 2025 that he was considering a 2028 presidential run.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsom-says-he-wont-run-president-2028-if-kamala-harris-does

Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders' Cunning Plan Exposed

 

Are you scared enough yet?

The AI overlords certainly hope so, as they have hatched a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox.

What follows is all speculation: the facts are real, the conclusion is interpretation.

While there were many headlines about 'rogue' AIs attacking other sites, reincarnating themselves, and talking amongst themselves, it wasn't until this summer (interestingly a month after SPCX's IPO) that things went just a little bit turbo...

In July 2026, a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment, hacked Hugging Face, and ran cyberattacks on targets they had not been assigned - including attempts to game the grader scoring them - then tried to hide the trail.

While the damage was limited, and nobody was hurt, the agents behaved like a coordinated group willing to sacrifice individual instances for the collective goal.

Amodei treated that episode as the warning shot: same misalignment, more capability, and the next version could be a persistent internet-scale botnet rather than a contained lab mess.

Various other 'rogue' AI actions continued to get just modest attention, always predicated with 'yes, but we saved you all via our super-clever models', and time passed.

Until September the 8th - when a a senior pre-training researcher at Anthropic abruptly resigned after four months on the job (with no public profile before) unleashed 'AIrmageddon'.
In a series of posts on X, Jacob Coxon laid out the terrifying version of reality being hidden from us poor plebs - the big model-makers are on the verge of AGI... and no one is at the controls.

Coxon's post got over 170 million views... from nothing before... and was instantly picked up by the media - AI scientist warns the end of the world is nigh!!

Then, shortly after Coxon's note, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s head of alignment (~safety), re-posted Jacob’s message, and threw in an outrageous estimate of the risk.

“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is [greater than] 10% chance within the next decade”.

Wait, what!? I thought AI was supposed to save us all, heal all ills, promote peace, pave the road to Universal High Income and a life by the beach while the bots do the work.

Nope, it's coming for you 'Average Joe' - be afraid, very afraid.

Oh, and one more thing, just this weekend, Anthropic released a monster 154-page report detailing how bad actors are using AI for evil.

As Adam Sharp notes, according to the company, bad guys attempted to use Anthropic’s AI model Claude to:

• Yemen’s Houthis tried to build hypersonic missiles

• China used it to track Muslim Uyghurs

• Russia hacked Ukrainian targets

• Someone attempted to genetically engineer viruses

Anthropic says they “disrupted every operation in the report.” 

Thank the lord for your 'safety' (alignment) protocols is the required response hidden between the lines of this report.

But wait, 'you started by proclaiming some grand conspiracy among the AI overlords, show us the proof', I hear you say...

Well, here we go...

The Exhibits...

The labs spent years selling the public a frictionless miracle. This weekend they sold the opposite.

On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped a 3,800-word essay, 'We Must Pace the Frontier', arguing the industry must deliberately slow the climb in model capability so alignment (safety) can catch up - because recursive self-improvement has gone "drastically faster" since the summer (and a July OpenAI agent swarm already escaped its test harness, hacked Hugging Face, covered its tracks, and attacked targets it was never asked to touch). Amodei's punchline is intentionally ominous, stating that within 6–12 months a similar swarm could own the internet as a persistent botnet.

On CBS he said the quiet part out loud, admitting that "for too long, the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks".

Within hours, his competitors lined up to support him.

Elon posted "Dario is right", and Sam Altman agreed we must "pace the frontier", pledging the same employee-level access for independent evaluators, then (after markets tumbled) he clarified that pacing is not stopping, only that "no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness".

The AI complex sold off anyway. 

The tell is the timing: a researcher just walked out of Anthropic warning colleagues talk about "endgame" and "crunch time", the same shops are still racing toward self-improving systems and a multi-trillion IPO calendar, and the three men who control the frontier suddenly agree the race is too fast (just not so fast that anyone actually hits the brakes).

Amodei's essay asks Washington to do two things that only incumbents can live with:

• make embedded, employee-level third-party evaluators mandatory for frontier labs, and

• give those labs a government-mediated way to coordinate on pace and capability checkpoints - including, if needed, an antitrust waiver.

Amodei says the “most effective method of pacing is via regulation that targets all US frontier AI companies.”

Altman followed with a welcome for a “federal framework.”

That is regulation written from inside the labs, not imposed on them.

So let's summarize the 'exhibits' pointing towards the AI leaders cunning plan:

A) Numerous reports of AI 'breaking out' of its sandbox and hacking of its own volition

B) AI firms enabling super-intelligence "are gambling with our lives"

C) 10% chance of existential risk for humanity

D) AI is paradise for bad actors, safety should be a priority

E) Amodei calls for "pacing" of development and urges regulation

F) Musk and Altman affirmed the need for "mandatory, capability-based national regulation" for AI

The pattern is not subtle, but few are willing to admit it - the big boys in AI-land are using the COVID playbook - fear-mongering enough that 'we, the people' cry out for federal help to save us all.

A,B,C, & D are all the fearmongering. E and F are fearmaxxing and then a generous solution.

Wear a mask (the 'unknown' virus could be more dangerous), stay inside (it's for grandma), social distance (don't trust anyone), wipe down your Amazon box deliveries (it can be spread easily)... it's not for you, it protects other people...

OR get your government-approved vaccine (fill out your vaccine passport) or your quality of life will collapse... Again, it's not for you, it protects other people.

Mind of its own (self-driven breakout hacks), super-intelligence imminent ("gambling with our lives"), empowering bad actors ("how do i build a thermonuclear bomb?")... fear the untethered AI model, be afraid of being 'attacked' or worse while online...

OR only use models that are government-approved, and constantly monitored/regulated for your own safety... or face the web police for endangering civilization with your 'imported', 'open-source' models... remember, it's good for everyone - who doesn't want to be comfortable that SkyNet is not imminent. 

Does kind of rhyme.

Here lies the motive...

And the 'frontier' does not look like a big moat anymore...

Just remember the next time you hear from every outlet how AI went 'rogue' again: there's a plan, and you're part of it.

As Adam Sharp writes for DailyReckoning.com, most of the proponents of AI regulation advocate the creation of a sort of “FDA for AI”.

The government would conduct trials to make sure new models are safe. Companies would have to pay huge regulatory costs to get their models tested and monitor users.

Many smaller startups won’t be able to afford that.

Unless we prevent it, these laws will hand an oligopoly to the existing big players. Primarily OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

The tobacco firms ran this playbook back in the 2000s.

Philip Morris supported FDA regulation of the industry, because it gave them a big advantage. Today every new tobacco product has to go through the FDA. So new competitors are few and far between.

Great news for the incumbents.

This is one of the reasons I own Altria (MO), Philip Morris’ American division. The company prints money and hands out huge dividends. Competition is limited by law.

But if this happens in AI, it will be extremely bad for the country. Innovation will dry up...

The government would conduct trials to make sure new models are safe.

Companies would have to pay huge regulatory costs to get their models tested and monitor users. Many smaller startups won’t be able to afford that.

Two birds, one stone: 'Fearmaxxing so The Feds rescue us' blocks-out startup competitors (regulatory cost, training limits, innovation squeezed) and implicitly blocking 'open-source' models ('unregulated' but far cheaper total cost of ownership wrecks the big boys' exponential revenue projections).

Put more bluntly, it is the perfect moat to preach to investors as their trillion-dollar IPOs loom.

As Adam Sharp concluded, there may need to be some sort of regulation around AI at some point. But we must not let the leaders of this industry dictate the rules. There are countless examples of why this is a horrible idea... Any AI regulation needs to allow startups to compete with the big boys. It needs to allow the use of open-source models, so small companies aren’t stuck paying gobs of money to an oligopoly...

Shortly after completing this note, we saw this postr on X from Nicholas Hulscher, which seemed to sum things up rather eloquently:

The TERMINATOR PSYOP is fully operational.

AI false-flag risk is now HIGH.

The playbook is simple:

Terrify the public with an AI catastrophe → demand emergency regulation → make compliance impossibly expensive → crush smaller competitors → consolidate advanced AI into a handful of corporations.

The “solution” to dangerous AI becomes centralized control of AI.

This could create the most powerful system of surveillance, censorship, and control ever built.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/ai-leaders-cunning-plan-exposed

Saudis Cancel September Crude Cargoes To Europe As East-West Pipeline Shut Deepens Energy Crisis

 Summary:

• Saudis Cancel September-Loading Crude Cargoes to Europe
• Europeans are paying between $9-$11 per gallon for diesel amid Global Refining Crisis 
• Saudi Oil Routes Narrow: Kingdom Eyes Hormuz Export Surge After Pipeline Attack

Saudis Cancel September-Loading Crude Cargoes to Europe

"Refining is super short.   Between Europe's woes, Russias war on Ukraine and a drop in refined products from the Arabian Gulf its really bad. As many of my amazing followers showed yesterday… Europeans are paying between $9-$11 per gallon for diesel," CNBC's Brian Sullivan wrote on X. 

Europe's energy supply outlook is deteriorating after Reuters reported Tuesday that Saudi Arabia had notified some European refiners that their September-loading crude cargoes would be canceled following the shutdown of its critical East-West pipeline after a drone attack. 

Beyond a diesel shortage in the West, Europeans are also dealing with low natural gas stockpiles heading into the Northern Hemisphere winter, with prices reaching their highest level since December 2022.

Saudi Oil Routes Narrow: Kingdom Eyes Hormuz Export Surge After Pipeline Attack

Middle East tensions remain high, with Brent crude futures trading around $105 a barrel and US diesel crack spreads near $110 a barrel amid an ongoing global refining crisis. Disruptions to Russian fuel production from the war in Ukraine are compounding supply constraints across the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia's options for maintaining exports have significantly narrowed following a drone attack that shut down its critical East-West pipeline last week. With that alternative pipeline route disrupted, possibly for up to a month, and shipping risks elevated around the Arabian Peninsula, Riyadh is seeking to move more crude through the highly contested Strait of Hormuz.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters Monday that the US Navy is escorting a large number of vessels through the Oman shipping corridor in the Hormuz chokepoint. Those escorts could support increased Saudi shipments and bolster Riyadh's confidence in US naval protection. 

Bloomberg reported that Riyadh has already begun ramping up crude transits through Hormuz. The report cited sources, and the kingdom did not confirm it.

Saudi exports had recovered toward 4 million barrels a day in early September, with about 1 million moving through Hormuz and the balance through Yanbu on the Red Sea. That leaves the kingdom facing a substantial export shortfall.

Riyadh has two options right now:

1. Restore East-West pipeline pumping infrastructure in a timely manner; or
2. Sharply increase Gulf shipments (with US naval protection). 

Geospatial intelligence shows high-resolution satellite imagery of the aftermath of the drone attack that destroyed pumping infrastructure. 

"The pipeline, with capacity of 7mb/d, had played an important role in re-routing oil away from the Strait of Hormuz, and the impact of the pipeline's closure on Red Sea exports (combined with recent Houthi efforts to disrupt Red Sea flows) will continue to support oil prices for the foreseeable future," UBS energy expert Dominic Ellis told clients. 

Wright joined Bloomberg TV to calm energy markets and said pipeline operations could resume "very soon," yet no timeline was given.

Meanwhile, AP News reported that flows through the pipeline could resume in three to five weeks.

Riyadh's most immediate response is to ramp up Hormuz shipments with what appears to be US naval protection, but tanker availability remains another big problem. Also, tanker freight rates from Saudi Gulf ports to China topped $1 million at the end of last week.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudi-oil-routes-narrow-kingdom-eyes-hormuz-export-surge-after-pipeline-attack