COVID

It's not totally absurd to compare our war against COVID with a boxing match. The virus clearly won Round 1; aside from masks and isolation, we were pretty much defenseless.
Any time I see the phrase "according to fact-checkers" in a headline, I can't help but roll my eyes.
If you've been closely following the pandemic from the beginning (I hope you're enjoying the Prozac), it should be obvious how little we really knew about COVID a year ago. Social distancing? Did it really work? Maybe.
Trends Over the Entire Pandemic.
Vaccine skepticism comes in many different varieties.
Since January, billions of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered around the world.
Atea Pharmaceuticals, which is (was?) co-developing another COVID antiviral drug with Roche called AT-527, issued a
Protests erupted at California's state capitol earlier this week in the wake of Governor Gavin Newsom's proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school students.
This year’s influenza (“flu”) season, which has already begun in some parts of the country, revs up in November, and last until spring, will be made more ominous than ever by the current high numbers of COVID-19 cases in many parts of the nation.&