Covid-19 Diary : Thursday 29 July, 2021
Thursday set a new record high number of Covid cases reported in the US since early February. Sadly, that same statement applies to many of the preceding days for the last five weeks due to …
Thursday set a new record high number of Covid cases reported in the US since early February. Sadly, that same statement applies to many of the preceding days for the last five weeks due to …
An extraordinary thing happened in England this week. On Monday 19th, England removed the last of its remaining “lockdown” measures, a move widely criticized as surely leading to a massive increase in new virus cases, …
The strongest lesson I’ve learned over the past 18 months is that our pandemic is not so much based on the virus as it is on our inability to rationally optimize our response to it. …
Tomorrow (Monday July 19) sees England triumphantly celebrate “Freedom Day” – as in freedom from the virus and all the restrictions associated with it. We’re unable to congratulate them, however. Their “freedom” is a rather …
This week saw what I believe may be an official first in people’s interactions with Covid. One unfortunate sufferer was infected with two different Covid variants, simultaneously. She died, although it is not known …
It has been a relatively quiet Friday/Saturday/Sunday for Covid news – although part of the “quietness” is perhaps my feeling a bit saturated with repeating and repetitive stories about surging numbers of new cases …
We’re living in a strange and bizarre world where countries are ignoring their growing Covid case numbers and claiming to have won the Covid battle. The UK continues to record ever-higher number of new Covid …
I hope you had a fun day today, and that Covid won’t end up having been an unwelcome guest at any of your celebrations. I am somewhere between bemused and worried at how our nation …
The more things change, the more they remain the same. That’s not an adage we want to see in the context of the global fight against the Covid pandemic, is it. But, truly, it seems …