COVID vaccine works - we're saved!

My daughter had COVID very early; March 2023 - she's a teacher surrounded by 5 year old virus generators all day. She lost her sense of taste before it was recognised as a symptom.It was only in February this year that she said she was back to normal. Prior to that some tastes returned but in weird ways - onions apparently tasted like petrol. Red wine like chocolate.

Reviewing his posts shows that he actually contributed a tiny smidgen of actual information. It was mostly just the repetitious drone of "math and 2 long term bacterial evolution experiments" and then he misapplies calculations of the mutation rate to a model for all of life.I don't know how many times he posted links to his "papers" but that seems to be his main purpose here, trying to increase visit stats and citations for his largely ignored work.The vitriol toward biologists and everyone opposing him was in the basic structure almost every one of his posts and seemed pathological to me. His argument style of Gish Gallop and Trumpian derogatory insults to everyone warranted suspension long ago in my opinion, but I did enjoy watching you toying with him for the last month or so.

Covid global health emergency is over, WHO says"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I've accepted that advice. It is therefore with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency," Dr Tedros said.20m dead.

... and counting.

With all the deaths still occurring (covid is expected to be the 3rd leading cause of death in the US this year) it is puzzling that that so many still minimize the threat.A common argument is that because the elderly, especially those with comorbidities, were the group most affected that the pandemic wasn't really a big deal, but there are several problems with this.First, the lives of the elderly are valuable, too.Second, nearly 25% of deaths in the US were of people younger than 65.Third, long covid is affecting a great many people. Around 30% of those who become ill with covid get long covid, but that includes people who take longer than a few weeks to recover fully. I'd have to guess at how many have permanent long covid, but I would put it at around 10%.Fourth, they've discovered that covid has a serious neurological component, causing brain damage that people aren't aware of at the time. It is possible that those who think they fully recovered could suffer neurological symptoms and/or deficiencies down the road. For instance, it wouldn't be surprising to find that as people age dementia is found to be more common in those who once had covid.--Percy

But think about the investors and corporate profits.