Good news, BA 2 milder than BA 1
Symptoms, Runny nose, 83% Fatigue, 72% Sore throat, 68% Sneezing, 69% Headache, 68% Persistent cough, 57% Hoarse, 49% Chills or…
Monkeypox arrives in England
Monkeypox case confirmed in England, with local spread, but it’s not going to be another pandemic. orthopoxvirus https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-england-1 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-cases-confirmed-in-england-latest-updates Cases,…
Europe, BA 5 and monkeypox next
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control BA.4 and BA.5 https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/variants-concern https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/epidemiological-update-sars-cov-2-omicron-sub-lineages-ba4-and-ba5 12th May, ECDC reclassified omicron subvariants, BA.4 and…
North Korea and China, mass irrationality
North Korea and China deny basic scientific rationality https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/the-guardian-view-on-low-covid-vaccination-rates-not-just-north-korea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61533715 President Biden with President Yoon Suk-yeol We’ve offered vaccines, not…
Monkeypox in 5 minutes
Rapid review of essential facts on monkeypox Monkeypox Key facts https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox Cases around the world, therefore sped for past few…
Monkeypox, some global spread
Cases around the world, therefore sped for past few weeks, Severe cases occur more commonly among children Monkeypox Key facts…
US Long Covid 20% of cases
Which is way higher than the UK figure CDC, Long covid Latest UK figures https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/infections 2.8% of the population, self-reported…
Highest deaths since 1929
but they are now going down. US omicron variants https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions BA.2, 39% BA.2.12.1, 58% Less common omicron derivatives Others, 0.1%…