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Study: Primary Characteristic of Covid Mutations is to Evade Human Immunity, Not Maximize Transmissibility
From the WSJ: Scientists in her lab used tests to recapitulate virus evolution in infected people and found that most mutations were geared toward helping the virus get around neutralizing antibodies. The accumulation of...
Double Vaccinated in a San Francisco Area Hospital now at 48% of those Hospitalized with Covid
The vaccine-resistant Covid variants are rising.
Our Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Without Many Casualties, makes it among the History’s Best Withdrawals
Homeward bound…safe and sound. Compared to retreat at Dunkirk, in World War II, when at least 45,000 British troops died on the beaches of Dunkirk, the tragic and haunting loss of 15 Americans from...
The Misplaced Fury Towards the American Unvaccinated
The judgment of the double vaccinated towards the unvaccinated has been swift and unrelenting. It is also misplaced, badly misplaced. Especially the refrain of how the unvaccinated are “breeding grounds” for Covid variants. Let’s...
Those Calling for the Impeachment of Biden are Carrying Putin’s Water
Obviously, the United States is in the throes of a joint (Russian-led) Chinese-Russian psychological warfare operation to force extremist policies and suggestions into the American body politic. This has a number of significant impacts,...
Bloomberg: Mice and Rats can be infected with Beta and Gamma Covid Variants
• ANIMAL HOSTS: Researchers at France’s Pasteur Institute showed that the beta and gamma variants are capable of infecting common laboratory mice and replicating at high concentrations in the lungs — a feat that...
Google: Yesterday’s New Covid Case Count
Found by Googling “covid cases” and setting it to all regions of the United States.
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LA Times Reports True Scale of Infectiousness of Delta
From the LA Times: The first is the emergence of the Delta variant — at least twice as transmissible as the previous dominant variant, Alpha, and capable of producing a viral load up to 1,000 times greater...
Why are we Protecting and Rewarding the Afghan Security Forces who Fled and Surrendered to the Taliban?
Retreats in warfare are never pretty. Especially when the enemy is attacking the retreating force and there are civilians being killed in ongoing military skirmishes and battles. But, this is not what is happening...
My Best Guess is we will Need a Vaccine for Epsilon too
Two days ago, I said my best guess is that we will need a new vaccine for the Lambda variant. You should add Epsilon to the list of variants that will need a new...