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trying to hold the sea back

Expect supply problems triggered by a host of issues - particularly China's zero Covid policy. (via The New York Times)

One has to wonder about the Olympics..

 

 

 

bob wachter and eric topol on the current and future state of the pandemic

Bob hosts the regular UCSF series on Covid and Eric is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. The series is aimed at people who are following things closely.

 

political interference in the 2020 census

One guess

These guys really hate the notion of Democracy.

a tip of the hat to Jim

 

pandemic-fueled voter purge?

One guesstimate on how many Trump voters are becoming ex-voters every day.

 

 

 

flu season

The flu is back with us, but not quite as predicted.   Katelyn Jetelina and Lauren Leining comment.

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We don’t have a good sense of the interaction of circulating respiratory pathogens. I’m hoping that when Omicron recedes, we won’t see increased influenza activity, especially since the more severe influenza strain is circulating. But we are keeping an eye on it. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza placed a large burden on our healthcare system. The CDC reports influenza was responsible for up to 41 million cases, 710,000 hospitalizations, and 52,000 deaths annually between 2010-2020. Influenza during the 2017-2018 year was particularly detrimental, contributing to an increase in excess deaths in the United States. To say the least, a “twin-demic” would be less than ideal, especially for our exhausted, depleted, and thin healthcare and public health workforce and infrastructure.

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an argument for creating a bit of hell on earth

Emmanuel Macron's notion of dealing with antivaxxers.

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If Macron’s approach has shown anything, it is the sad and apparent truth that the only way to compel citizens to act for the greater good is not to appeal to some higher sense of civic duty but to tell them there will be no restaurant meals if they don’t get their shots.

Funny how even the loudest vaccine skeptics start to reconsider their convictions when they realize there won’t be able to drink wine on cafe terraces. It’s almost as though their convictions are not so much convictions and actually just, well, what Macron said.

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on cdc guidelines

(since this was posted they've been improved a little.. perhaps not enough)

 

talking about the weather

At least 2021 was "interesting" in the US.

Not that interesting is good..  and some of it is linked to global warming.

 

mocking antivaxxers who die

Assuming they didn't get vaccinated by stubborn choice there may be good reason to mock them..

a tip of the hat to Jim 

omicron and testing

Andy Slavitt talks with Michael Mina about testing.  A very useful episode - particularly the first 20 minutes or so