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At least, I hope. Barring essential news, like the remote chance of back mutation to a dangerous variant evading herd immunity, we’re done with SARS-CoV-2. There’s still a chance another coronavirus rears its head–SARS-CoV-2 was the latest in a “once a decade: the emergence of SARS, followed by MERS. If that happens, and it’s an -if-, and …
We will do a summary of sorts of all things coronavirus sometime next month as well. Until then: Blastomycosis The outbreak in Michigan is up to 109 cases confirmed, with 13 hospitalizations and fortunately still just the one death. The paper mill has been closed (obviously) to get a deep clean of pretty much everything, …
By now, you have likely juuuuuust finished the last update. Hopefully, this one will be shorter, but after these years, you know better than to think of that as guarantee… Blastomycosis We’ll start here, mostly because it’s new to the update. The US CDC this past weekend announced it was investigating a cluster of blastomycosis …
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The end is very nigh. Barring anything spectacularly unexpected, I think the next update will be the last one, roughly around the time the US announced the end to emergency COVID measures (this coming May). I’m leaning towards a “what have we learned” theme on that one, but we’ll see. This one is really just …
Flu –We’ll start here since it’s short, and mostly in case you saw headlines about bird flu jumping over. So the reason eggs are so expensive everywhere is because a H5N1 flu that is brutally infective (and deadly) to birds has over the past year or two cut an enormous swath through flocks of chickens. …
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First, I feel the need to address the rumors out there. Yes, the video that has gone semi-viral on the internet does, indeed, accurately reflect my warm up routine before I charge into the few moments borrowed to speed write these updates. At least, the video is mostly accurate. The video in question is, quite …
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Pfizer dropped a press release responding to the allegations about “directed evolution” as part of the SARS-CoV-2 research they have been doing for their vaccine, per their director of pipeline captured on video by Project Veritas suggesting this was happening. Before being confronted by Project Veritas more directly, and pretty much completely flipping out. Regardless, …
At last, at long last, the end of these may be in sight for coronavirus. No, really. –China is probably through the worst. There are no major blow ups happening elsewhere. There are no signs of alarm of particularly dangerous new variants in the sequences from Chinese travellers. By the end of next month (really, …
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Full disclosure, I was heading into this week NOT expecting to do an update, and focus on some other writing projects in my “writing time.” Then I got inundated by reader questions around what is clearly another swell of “mRNA vaccines are unsafe” narratives out there this week, likely heavily prompted by the very public …
Ebola Short and sweet update: no new cases, and the WHO and African CDC have set a January 10th deadline to officially call the outbreak over. If no new cases by then, they officially close the books. Uganda discharged its last known actively infected patient from the hospital this week. Coronavirus This will also be …
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