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XBB 1.5 has far exceeded worst expectations, doubling its share of new U.S. covid cases, soaring from 18% to 40% last week. The extremely immunity-proof mutation has pushed aside a dozen other covid variants by out-infecting them in a blitzkrieg wave...
by Mark Hennon
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on Mon Jan 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Does our uniquely American character doom us to failure in the fight against Covid? It certainly seems so. On a per-capita basis, we are among the global “leaders” in cases and deaths worldwide, although part of our “leadership” may be due to better...
by dratler
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on Mon Nov 29, 2021 at 10:49 AM PST
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Upon researchers in South Africa first spotting the omicron variant of the coronavirus last week, the global race to contain the latest strain is on, prompting President Joe Biden on Monday to urge Americans to remain vigilant in safeguarding their...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Mon Nov 29, 2021 at 09:57 AM PST
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From Noahpinion: Key points according to Smith [Emphasis added, mine]: Delta, though much more transmissible, wasn’t an “escape variant”. The original, unmodified mRNA vaccines worked perfectly well against Delta. The same is probably not true of...
by Wolf10
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on Sat Nov 27, 2021 at 06:38 AM PST
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Bad Science Will Create More Fatalities: They’re Asking The Wrong Questions Concerning Youth Vaccine The Guardian just published a piece noting a study giving a conclusion suggestive that youth vaccination carries more risk than getting the disease. Don’t believe it, this is flawed science. They’re looking at the wrong things. “Healthy boys may be...
by Fffflats
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on Fri Sep 10, 2021 at 03:55 PM PDT
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By Ray Cunneff UPDATE: March 18, 2021 To follow up on articles I’ve posted over the last several months, for a variety of reasons many in the scientific community had been inexplicably reluctant to discuss the topic of virus mutation. The subject...
by Ray Cunneff
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on Thu Mar 18, 2021 at 05:36 PM PDT
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By Ray Cunneff UPDATE January 29, 2021 SOUTH AFRICAN VARIANT FOUND IN TWO SOUTH CAROLINA CASES Thought to be far more transmissible, and possibly more deadly, the South African COVID variant has been found in two separate cases in South Carolina. It...
by Ray Cunneff
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on Fri Jan 29, 2021 at 09:47 AM PST
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We now know that pale horse Ivanka and other soulless demons have turned the CDC into another hub from which their genocidal legacy in human experimentation has been launched: “Every time that ...
by hamez
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on Sun Dec 20, 2020 at 03:00 PM PST
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This could be what pushes us into the abyss. Donald Trump and Jared Kushner made it clear that they wanted blue states states like California to be burned to the ground by the virus in order to kill off blue state citizens to hurt their governors,...
by hamez
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on Sun Dec 20, 2020 at 12:47 PM PST
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COVID-19 Reality Check UPDATE: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED We’ve actually learned quite a lot since our last update, none of it particularly good. By Ray Cunneff July 7, 2020 A study by the esteemed British medical journal Lancet Psychiatry confirms the recent...
by Ray Cunneff
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on Tue Jul 07, 2020 at 02:29 PM PDT
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Seems like this is the new virus coming from Europe… Will Trump start calling it the european virus now? I doubt it. It spreads faster… so more people will get infected. A global study has found strong evidence that a new form of the coronavirus has...
by prizmordial
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on Thu Jul 02, 2020 at 09:04 PM PDT
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A report by Gina Kolata in the New York Times has some unsettling news. It has been found that the coronavirus has multiple ways to attack the body. At the beginning of the pandemic, the coronavirus looked to be another respiratory illness. But the...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jun 26, 2020 at 09:58 PM PDT
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That’s right folks. COVID-19 may no longer be the same critter Trump invited to our country back in December and January. According to a team of scientists from Taiwan and Australia, they found: Summary 20. Monitoring the mutation dynamics of...
by agnostic
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on Wed Apr 15, 2020 at 12:47 PM PDT
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The bad news is that the coronavirus is likely to defeat containment measures. OTOH, there has been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about the virus mutating and becoming more virulent. Evidently, the genetic makeup of this and other...
by Wolf10
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on Wed Feb 05, 2020 at 06:45 AM PST
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I've been writing a science fiction story. In my story, the "Mutant Uprising" came about because corporations were irresponsible and polluted the earth. To give my story realism, I decided to look ...
by Dania Audax
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on Thu May 02, 2013 at 04:01 AM PDT
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[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster. ]
Rarely do I regret publishing political essays as first draft spit-outs (all of my political work is), but yesterday was definitely one of those days, there ...
by paradox
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on Sat Feb 16, 2013 at 06:15 AM PST
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Image from *The Malay Archipelago* by Alfred Russel Wallace
This is the first entry ...
by matching mole
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on Sun Sep 12, 2010 at 05:32 PM PDT
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What do radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and genetically modified organisms have to do with your food? A great deal actually, as I'm learning at the IAEA's ...
by raoul78
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on Wed Aug 13, 2008 at 02:55 PM PDT
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by Paul Goodman
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on Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 11:45 AM PDT
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