Endemic Report
The latest CDC weekly stats:
The Sick Times hasn't published a weekly update since the first week of May.
We continue to see of the winter surge as we reach the informal start of the summer season this holiday weekend, although the virus is resurging in 3 states: Florida, Louisiana, and Hawaii.
COVID-19 weekly news items include:
- "COVID is shaping Americans' reaction to Ebola and hantavirus"
- "Minority children have higher odds of severe post-COVID complications, study suggests"
- "The oral drug, called ensitrelvir, significantly reduced the risk of getting sick among individuals who lived with someone ill with Covid-19, according to clinical trial results published May 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine." "A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that it could prevent symptomatic RT-PCR-confirmed COVID-19 if used within 72 hours after symptom onset in an infected household index patient."
- "Fungal Adjuvant Mannadjuvant Extends mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Protections"
- "Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest"
- "In a new study published in Nature Immunology, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital demonstrated that pairing the original COVID-19 mRNA vaccine with an immune system enhancer, known as an adjuvant, improved the duration of the vaccine's protection in mice"
- "Chewing gum restores doctor’s taste and smell lost to COVID-19"
- "Brain inflammation is unlikely to explain persistent long COVID symptoms"
- "Boston Children's scientists create new booster-free mRNA vaccine strategy"
- COVID-19 relief fraud/other crimes:
- "Bozeman woman sentenced for COVID relief fraud scheme"
- "Rockford man sentenced to federal prison in $85K COVID-19 loan fraud"
- Legal/political issues:
- "EEOC orders compensation for feds denied religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine"
- "Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell, on "Establishment of the Department of War COVID-19 Reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force" and "Reinstating Service Members Unjustly Discharged Under the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Mandate" Memorandums"
- "Senate Report Details Early Myocarditis Signals After COVID-19 Vaccination"
- "Employer to pay $4.25M to settle claims it failed to consider vaccine exemptions"
- "‘We’re not ready’: US lags on pandemic preparedness after Covid, experts say"
- "United Fails to Ditch Religious Bias Suit Over Covid-19 Policy"
- "Ohio Chief Justice Skeptical of Effort to Obtain Covid Benefits"
- "Analysis: After the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands more kindergarteners faced developmental challenges"
- "South Florida mother accused of drowning infant daughter claims COVID-induced insanity"
- "Michael Gordon Jackson's appeal dismissed in COVID-19 abduction case"
Other Notes
The blog is still averaging over 1K, dubiously well over blog life stats. We should pass the 200 post mark over the coming week. I'm planning to post an essay on Massie's recent primary loss to Trump's recruited stooge. X/Twitter followers are starting to stabilize, but most tweets barely attract impressions.
I'm watching WWE Saturday Night, the last PLE series still carried by Peacock and probably the last I'll see on my expiring subscription. I think the NXT PLEs will be carried on the CW. The odd thing is that Peacock didn't really promote the PLE; I couldn't even see a link on my home page tonight. I ended up having to do a website search.
