Interesting study in "Recommended Reading." Turns out that young people who report lingering symptoms of Covid -- so-called "Long Covid" -- are children of parents who report lingering symptoms of Covid -- so-called "Long Covid." The power of genes, or the power of suggestion?
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Covid-2019
Friday, August 19, 2022
Who knows what's real anymore. In "Recommended Reading," NPR declares the end of the Monkeypox emergency with as little evidence as it declared its onset. What turned the imaginary tide? Vaccines of course. Complete fantasy structure, beginning, middle and end.
Covid-2019
Thursday, August 18, 2022
The CDC has announced a major reorganization -- because in the pandemic the agency "did not reliably meet expectations." That's putting it mildly. The "ninth paragraph rule" holds again for the New York Times coverage. Turns out this embarrassing admission is the result of an external study that started in April -- but the study itself has not been published. Something tells us the study doesn't put it so mildly (or it would have been published). See "Recommended Reading."
Covid-2019
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," Covid breaks out in the tiny Marshall Islands, after almost no cases at all last year. Our famous "ninth paragraph rule" comes through again. "The population is highly vaccinated: 72 percent are fully vaccinated in Majuro, and 61 percent have boosters..."
Covid-2019
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," a scandalous expose of Canada's travel ban against its own unvaccinated citizens: "The bureaucrat in charge of crafting one of the world's 'strongest vaccination mandates in the world', according to the bureaucrat herself and [Prime Minister] Trudeau, has an undergraduate degree in English literature and self-evidently didn't have the scientific knowledge... Neither were there any doctors, epidemiologists and scientists on her team, a secretive panel whose membership is nowhere published."
Covid-2019
Monday, August 15, 2022
China cuts rates amidst an economic slowdown as "Zero Covid" travel nightmares and a property collapse bite. Speaking of biting, China has a new shrew-borne virus on the loose -- but don't worry until we tell you to worry: "scientists suggest" there's no risk here. It's all in "Recommended Reading."
Covid-2019
Sunday, August 14, 2022
As we predicted (we love those three words) the BA.5 wave in the US is definitively ebbing. The two-week trajectory for new cases is now heading lower in 40 states, and the test-positivity ratio is falling in 42.
Covid-2019
Saturday, August 13, 2022
New evidence is emerging that the White House pressured Twitter to ban Alex Berenson at time when new-president Biden was most aggressively taking credit for the new vaccines -- which Berenson, correctly as it turned out, was not quite as enthusiastic about. See today's "Recommended Reading."
Covid-2019
Friday, August 12, 2022
After two and a half years, the "CDC is streamlining its COVID-19 guidance... This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives." In other words, after all this time of disrupting our lives, it turns out they didn't have to?
Covid-2019
Thursday, August 11, 2022
We've turned the corner on the US's little BA.5 wavelet. Now 34 states are in declining two-week case trajectories, and 39 are in declining test-positivity trajectories.