Covid-19 spread in India, home of the "Delta variant" that is supposedly more transmissible, is falling to increasingly sub-exponential rates every day now.
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
In "Recommended Reading," just when you thought the bungling couldn't get any sillier. Now it seems the US possessed genetic sequencing from Covid-19 samples as early as January 2020, but deleted the data at the request of -- wait for it -- Chinese authorities.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Somehow China's suggestion that the Wuhan Institute of Virology receive the Nobel Prize in medicine doesn't seem quite right to us.
Covid-2019
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Another landmark -- the US hits the 85% herd immunity threshold for the adult population. Now come the new fear-porn: the horrors that await the unvaccinated Neanderthals and the children (the children, Mandrake!).
Covid-2019
Monday, June 21, 2021
This morning Tokyo officials decided to overrule the advice of "experts" and allow 10,000 local spectators to attend Olympic events this summer. At this point, even that compromise is a welcome move in the direction of sanity.
Covid-2019
Sunday, June 20, 2021
The CDC once again leave its weekly comorbidity statement unchanged: for only 5% of Covid deaths was Covid the only cause, with an average of 4 additional conditions or causes.
Covid-2019
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Of all the jurisdictions we follow, there's not one where Covid is spreading exponentially according to our days-to-double-fatalities indicator. Not India. Not Brazil. Not the UK. Nowhere.
Covid-2019
Friday, June 18, 2021
As the US approaches the 85% adult herd immunity threshold, scientists are questioning whether it is a smart, or even ethical, risk-return tradeoff to vaccinate the young. "The idea that everyone must be vaccinated against COVID-19 is as misguided as the anti-vax idea that no one should." See "Recommended Reading."
Covid-2019
Thursday, June 17, 2021
India's Covid crisis has ended -- the Taj Mahal is re-opened. At the same time, cases in South Africa are flaring again.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Okay, you've got to go to "Recommended Reading" and click on the link to watch Jon Stewart's riff about the Wuhan lab-leak theory on the "Late Show," and host Colbert's horror that he can't control the narrative. To paraphrase Nixon, if we've lost Stewart, we've lost middle America.