The Coronavirus Thread

[JimC]

Yeah, Sean, but covid is not over you...

[Tero]

20% of Americans have had covid. I've only spoken to two.

[Tero]

Right winger "news" are reporting Betty White died from a covid booster. There was no booster.
https://pagesix.com/2022/01/03/betty-wh ... -revealed/

[JimC]

20% of Americans have had covid. I've only spoken to two.

Yeah, but they are disproportionally Republican idiots, so you wouldn't know many...

[JimC]

A bit of a worry, particularly for the northern hemisphere winter:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-04/ ... /100737106

Israeli health authorities have detected a case of what some are calling "flurona" — a double dose of COVID-19 and the flu.

A pregnant woman tested positive for both viruses after being admitted to hospital in Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv.

It comes as Israel is experiencing a spike in influenza cases in recent weeks, sparking fears of a "twindemic".

I suppose that, within a human body, the viruses are classic competitors in the ecological sense...

"Fuck off, coronavirus, this is my cell. Go find one of your own..."

[Svartalf]

20% of Americans have had covid. I've only spoken to two.

Yeah, but they are disproportionally Republican idiots, so you wouldn't know many...

republican idiot? hasn't this become kind of a pleonasm since the 70s?

[Svartalf]

And as for the israeli artticle, twindemics have been our lot for centuries, since I don't guess the common cold and the flu took turns.

[Tero]

One for Sean

[Tero]

Corona politics: science is messing with us
NYT
This time, public health officials are having to factor the public’s waning patience into their epidemiological calculations.

Scott Gottlieb, a former F.D.A. commissioner in the Trump administration:

...its ostentatious displays of deference to “the science” have fed charges of hypocrisy whenever decisions appeared to incorporate other considerations.

“The Biden administration kind of handcuffed itself coming in because of this narrative that all of the problems under Trump were created by interference in the scientific process,” he said. Now, he added, “I think they have buyer’s remorse.”

[macdoc]

Partner tested negative ...needs another test Sat to go out and also has to wear a mask for 6 days everywhere.
Not an issue for a surgical nurse but still glad she is negative.

[Brian Peacock]

South African Omicron cases seem to have topped out over the last two weeks and appear to be in decline now.

[pErvinalia]

It's time for the next strain.

[rainbow]

It's time for the next strain.

Cameroon.

Always something new out of Africa

[Brian Peacock]

Guess the next strain will be the Pi-variant.


Hmmm. Pi...

[Tero]