How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Archer]

Top NY Doctor: New COVID Wave Is Starting, With the ‘Worst Version' of Omicron

A new COVID wave appears to be starting in New York City, fueled by the strongest subvariant of the omicron strain of coronavirus to date, one of the city’s top epidemiologists said Tuesday. The BA.5 subvariant, first seen in South Africa and then Portugal, is considered by some experts to be...

www.nbcnewyork.com

Our numbers haven't fallen below 20% here for months. Last summer they got below 5% for awhile. I'm so, so tired of this.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

British taxpayers take stake in sex party planning firm Killing Kittens

Company given support from fund set up by government to provide loans to startups during pandemic

www.theguardian.com

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‘Rishi Sunak can come to our sex parties’: behind the mask of Killing Kittens

This week’s revelation that a government fund established to bail out companies during Covid has resulted in taxpayers owning a stake in a firm that throws deca

www.thetimes.co.uk

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Isabeau]

« Unconventional treatment »

American family physician Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko, who rose to fame during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic by promoting an unconventional treatment for the virus, died on Thursday after battling cancer for several years. He was 49.

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who touted unconventional COVID treatment, dies at 49 | The Times of Israel

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Covid killed so many of us – now the government fears our tears and rage | Michael Rosen

With deaths from the virus passing 200,000, Britain is a country struggling to process the trauma of so much fear and loss, says writer Michael Rosen

www.theguardian.com

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[Free]

President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19

Biden is taking the antiviral Paxlovid.

www.theverge.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The first polio case in the USA in 10 years! Of course the child was not vaccinated...

New York reports 1st US polio case in nearly a decade

NEW YORK (AP) — An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S. case in nearly a decade, health officials said Thursday. Officials said the patient, who lives in Rockland County, had developed paralysis.

apnews.com

 

[Free]

Didn't Trump also require a helicopter to get upstairs in the White House?

 

[Free]

Another set of heart palpitations for the waiting fans...

George R.R. Martin reportedly "feeling fine" after catching COVID at Comic-Con

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I keep hearing about cons giving token attention to COVID but not actually requiring any useful countermeasures, so I'm not surprised.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I keep hearing about cons giving token attention to COVID but not actually requiring any useful countermeasures, so I'm not surprised.

To be fair, the act of attending a convention is pretty much a "hold my beer" decision anyway.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Somehow they're not ALL superspreader events.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Biden Tests Positive for Covid Again in ‘Rebound’ Case

The president tested positive on Saturday morning and will once again isolate, although his symptoms have not come back, the White House physician said.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

"Why are you still wearing a mask?" asks friend who's had Covid 3 times

Oshawa, ON - Craig Batherson, your friend from intramural hockey who has gotten Covid nearly every time a new variant has developed, was surprised to see you wearing a mask.

www.thebeaverton.com

 

[Lexxi]

"Why are you still wearing a mask?" asks friend who's had Covid 3 times

Oshawa, ON - Craig Batherson, your friend from intramural hockey who has gotten Covid nearly every time a new variant has developed, was surprised to see you wearing a mask.

www.thebeaverton.com

I do not understand what the difference is between this article, on a comedy website, and one on a non-comedy website.

In related news the convoyers who demanded the freedom to not wear masks remain surprisingly angry at people who use their freedom to wear masks.

• The number of virus deaths announced each day is higher now than it was in early July, but it has held fairly steady in recent weeks at around 440 fatalities per day.
• The most transmissible variant yet of the coronavirus is threatening a fresh wave of infections in the United States, even among those who have recovered from the virus fairly recently.

covid-cases.html

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Jolene Benoir]

The US government will no longer pay for Covid-19 vaccines, treatments

Throughout the pandemic, the federal government has provided Americans with Covid-19 vaccines and treatments free-of-charge, but this will soon change as health officials plan a transition to commercial purchasing—a move health experts say will bring new challenges with

www.advisory.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The US government will no longer pay for Covid-19 vaccines, treatments

Throughout the pandemic, the federal government has provided Americans with Covid-19 vaccines and treatments free-of-charge, but this will soon change as health officials plan a transition to commercial purchasing—a move health experts say will bring new challenges with

www.advisory.com

buckle up, motherfuckers

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

 

[Free]

I assume this happened back when he was still just a New Jersey citizen.

Dr. Oz emailed Trump admin. to push notoriously useless COVID treatment

The celebrity doctor played an early role in the push for an ineffective drug.

arstechnica.com