Coronavirus Pandemic
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We don't talk enough about the fact that when Brando describes what horror is at the end of Apocalypse Now, he is talking about antivax.
Gizmodo - U.S. Ranks 59th for Covid-19 Vaccinations, Just Behind Iran
Our country thrives at generating total bullshit though. Surely we can be #1 in that.
The far-right U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the OSHA test-or-vaccine mandate for businesses but allowed only the narrow mandate for healthcare workers.
This court Republican majority doesn't believe the feds can protect workers and workplaces from biohazards and other forms of harm like the law that President Nixon signed after Congress passed it.
The United States ranks 59th or worse when it comes to its population getting vaccinated in the world. That didn't happen by accident. We had all the vaccines we could use and still failed due to a stupid ass population and their death cult ideology.
CNBC - Supreme Court blocks Biden Covid vaccine mandate for businesses, allows health-care worker rule
NY Times - More than half of Americans have been infected with the coronavirus at least once, the C.D.C. says.
Blood tests showed a sharp increase in the proportion of people who had antibodies indicating past infection with the virus, the agency said.
NY Times - Vice President Kamala Harris Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Blood tests showed a sharp increase in the proportion of people who had antibodies indicating past infection with the virus, the agency said.
NY Times - Vice President Kamala Harris Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Vice - How North Korea Went from ‘Zero COVID’ to 1.2 Million Cases in 72 Hours
NY Times - How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
Gizmodo - Vast Majority of Long Covid Patients Were Never Hospitalized, Report Finds
Three-fourths of diagnosed long covid patients avoided hospitalization, according to an analysis of private insurance claims.
NY Times - U.S. Officials Warn of Substantial Increase in Virus Cases
NY Times - How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
NYC moves to ‘high COVID alert level,’ says city health commissionerA virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses, and waves of infections two, maybe three times a year — this may be the future of Covid-19, some scientists now fear.
The central problem is that the coronavirus has become more adept at reinfecting people. Already, those infected with the first Omicron variant are reporting second infections with the newer versions of the variant — BA.2 or BA2.12.1 in the United States, or BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa.
Those people may go on to have third or fourth infections, even within this year, researchers said in interviews. And some small fraction may have symptoms that persist for months or years, a condition known as long Covid.
“It seems likely to me that that’s going to sort of be a long-term pattern,” said Juliet Pulliam, an epidemiologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
Gizmodo - Vast Majority of Long Covid Patients Were Never Hospitalized, Report Finds
Three-fourths of diagnosed long covid patients avoided hospitalization, according to an analysis of private insurance claims.
NY Times - U.S. Officials Warn of Substantial Increase in Virus Cases
- * A third of Americans live in areas where the threat of Covid-19 is now so high that they should consider wearing masks indoors, the C.D.C. said.
- * The head of the agency said the U.S. seven-day average of hospital admissions from the virus rose 19 percent over the previous week. Here’s the latest.
Associated Press - U.S. clears updated COVID-19 boosters targeting the newest omicron strain; shots could begin within days
The ideal time to get them just about upon us: before the time at the end of the year where the case count has surged in the past according to the calendar. Now with home testing we'll never know how truly high the case count is this time.
United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer
The ideal time to get them just about upon us: before the time at the end of the year where the case count has surged in the past according to the calendar. Now with home testing we'll never know how truly high the case count is this time.
United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer