NYC COVID cases up 250% in 2 months — and this variant's harder to duck
Cases have been rising nationally and locally for about two months, driven by FLiRT variants.
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CDC finds that COVID-19 can surge throughout the year
COVID-19 has peaks in the winter and also at other times of the year, including the summer, driven by new variants and decreasing immunity from previous infections and vaccinations.
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A covid summer uptick is underway as FLiRT and LB.1 variants ascend
Coronavirus infections are likely growing in 44 states and territories as of June 25, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Study finds all N95 masks effective for reducing an ill person's danger to others, especially duckbill masks
"All masks and respirators significantly reduced exhaled viral load, without fit tests or training. A duckbill N95 reduced exhaled viral load by 98% (95% CI: 97%–99%), and significantly outperformed a KN95 (p < 0.001) as well as cloth and surgical masks. Cloth masks outperformed a surgical mask (p = 0.027) and the tested KN95 (p = 0.014)."
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Mask bans continue to spread but their impact on the health of the community is under-reported, even by leftist publications
There are still health risks and mask bans are threatening the most vulnerable
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During COVID the Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign
During the peak of the pandemic the Pentagon ran anti-vax propaganda targeting the Philippines in order to undermine China. However, because the internet is global, it spread.
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FLiRT and LB.1 Subvariants are responsible for thousands of deaths, with 44,000 in less than a year
"More than 44,000 COVID deaths have been reported since October; by contrast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly flu surveillance report estimates 24,000 flu deaths during the same time."
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Columnist Zeynep Tufekci analyzes communication practices from US officials and their flaws
"Under questioning by a congressional subcommittee, top officials from the National Institutes of Health, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, acknowledged that some key parts of the public health guidance their agencies promoted during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic were not backed up by solid science. What’s more, inconvenient information was kept from the public — suppressed, denied or disparaged as crackpot nonsense."
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Scientists theorize uptick in aggressive cancers may be tied to COVID
It will probably be many years before the world has conclusive answers about whether the coronavirus is complicit in the surge of cancer cases, but Patel and other concerned scientists are calling on the U.S. government to make this question a priority knowing it could affect treatment and management of millions of cancer patients for decades to come.
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COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
"Cases are low right now for one simple reason: most people have recently had COVID. If not during the massive winter JN.1 surge, which infected an estimated 100 million people, then in the previous variant-soup wave of late summer 2023."