Omicron

Look, COVID perfection is not possible — Until I got COVID and spread it, I had a lot of opinions and judgments about Those Idiots Who Spread COVID. Count me COVID Woke and cut down to size. I won’t rehash the entire, tedious chain of events that led me to become an Omicron b.5 superspreader. In short…

A newsletter providing a short account of the articles published in the last month — Hi everyone! It’s time for me to send another monthly update on the articles published in Microbial Instincts, an independent publication about infectious diseases and vaccines, last month. As usual, here is the list (friend-linked) that I hope will keep you more scientifically informed: Monkeypox Monkeypox: The New Public Health Emergency…

I’m officially a superspreader — I was in a play and I have Omicron. I can’t be sure but it’s probably variant ba.5, the super contagious one. On Friday night, I spread it around — but I want to tell this story because you may have to face a similar dilemma. I bowed to the…

EACH DAY, I DUTIFULLY CHECK THE NEW YORK TIMES online edition to see Covid incidence and mortality trajectories at various places in the United States and worldwide. Cases of COVID-19 are again surging in the United States and elsewhere, with the BA.5 …

Either we evolve our ways to fight Covid or let it out-evolve us again. — When Deltacron — a Delta-Omicron hybrid SARS-CoV-2 variant — made headlines earlier this January, some feared it could be the worst variant possible. But that Deltacron was very rare — only in about 2 out of 30,000 samples sequenced —and did not take off. …