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In other words, the coronavirus will become “endemic,” a pathogen that circulates at low levels and only rarely causes serious illness. Source: Coronavirus Will Resemble the Common Cold, Scientists Predict…
State health chief said the state appeared not be seeing as big a post-Christmas surge as it had expected. Source: Sacramento region’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order being lifted | The Sacramento…
Source: Figure 1 – 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics – Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC Back then, diagnosis was based on…
“Harvard Summer School suspended all study-abroad programming for the summer of 2021, citing concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.” Source: Harvard Cancels Summer 2021 Study Abroad Programming | News |…
January 8, 2021: TORONTO (Reuters) – Ontario is considering “more extreme measures” on top of the widespread lockdowns in place, the premier said on Friday, Source: Canada’s Ontario says ‘more…
Disease model projections have proven close to worthless. Perhaps like a stopped clock, they might get close once in a while. Here is another set of models that blew up…
Chart shows the total number of passenger for each week, during the pandemic. This is a better way of looking at the data than day by day due to large…
This part of the post was written on September 4th, but not published until December 30. On September 4th, the UW IHME disease modeling team projected 410,000 deaths in the…
The conversations are a treat for the astronauts as well. “You’re talking to someone and looking right down at where they are,” NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold II said. Over the…
I deleted my last FB/IG app from a device yesterday. I still had IG running on one Android tablet but I no longer view use of FB/IG apps as safe.…