A complete list of all the countries in the world and their current Covid restrictions, from the New York Times.
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Folks, the pandemic isn’t over
In China or anywhere else.
Beijing is racing to track a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week, city authorities said over the weekend, raising the prospect more stringent restrictions could soon be implemented in line with other Chinese cities.
But it has a 99% survival rate!
So say the anti-vaxers in pooh-poohing the virus. But survival and recovery are two different things.
From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 -- the ones that landed people in the hospital on ventilators with shredded lungs -- most of the internal wreckage wasn't being directly inflicted by the virus itself but by a blizzard of immune reactions triggered by the body to fight the infection.
Covid deaths 3 times higher than official toll
From NBC News: “The number of people worldwide who died because of the pandemic in its first two years may total more than 18 million, according to a sobering study released Thursday. That’s three times more than the reported global death toll from Covid-19, which crossed 6 million earlier this week.
“The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet, analyzed data from 74 countries and 266 states and territories between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2021. The scientists calculated excess deaths, a measure of how many more people died than would be expected had the pandemic not occurred. That means the estimate accounts both for people killed by Covid directly — confirmed and undiagnosed cases — as well as those whose deaths may be indirectly attributed to the pandemic.
“Examples in the latter category include people with serious medical conditions who were unable to seek timely care because hospitals were overburdened, people who died by suicide, and those who died due to a lack of access to essential services.”
A setback (sigh)
Dr. Paul Offit said the expedited plan was based on the assumption the third dose will prove safe and effective, but there's no guarantee that will be the case.
In other words, il faut les enmerder
France has just mandated "vaccine passes" for public places. We should too.
How much of a difference will this make?
One of the main talking points among the antivax crowd is that the vaccines were “experimental” and not fully approved by the FDA. Now they are (Pfizer and Moderna, not J&J). Somehow, I don’t see these folks rushing out to get the jab. After all, the FDA is part of the deep state and you can’t trust Dr. Fauci or anyone else in the government. It’s all about control, not science.
The company is the second vaccine maker to get full FDA approval for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Some call this flip-flopping, everyone else calls it science
After dizzily swelling for weeks, COVID-19 cases seem to be leveling off in New York and Chicago. In the greater Boston area, the amount of SARS-CoV-2 found in ?
The Court has denied this
Even so, it seems that all is not harmony on the highest bench in the land.
Anybody who regularly watches Supreme Court arguments is used to seeing testy moments. But you don't have to be a keen observer these days to see that something out of the ordinary is happening.
The modern art of prophecy
Very different from how the ancients practiced it. For one thing, it doesn’t require mucking around with the entrails of a dead chicken.
Boston College biologists develop a computational model to detect emerging Coronavirus strains.