James Corbett and I sounded off about the state of the world and what to do about it

If you have not been reading the “Coffee and COVID” substack you have missed out on some of the most up-to-date info on all things COVID from the sharp, discerning and amusing legal mind belonging to Jeff Childers.  Today I see the title is “COVID and Courage,” which I think refers to trusting the mouse…

Finally, a major US network, CNN, tells the truth about flu vaccine policy: The flu hasn’t hit Europe as hard as it has the United States, health officials say, but when and if it does, don’t expect a call for vaccination of the entire population.  Only the U.S. and Canada actually encourage everyone older than…

BEIJING (Reuters) – “China’s vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu strain is not proceeding as fast as it should be partly because people are needlessly worried about the safety of the vaccine, officials said on Friday…”

What is going on? How can increased levels of Omicron virus replication be associated with reduced disease?  How did so many mutations in the receptor binding domain of Omicron arise, apparently spontaneously?  Why do the evolutionary tree plots show that Omicron represents a separate branch from currently circulating viruses?  How could so many mutations which confer…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10826157/Q-deadly-monkeypox-cure-treated-worried-be.html SEE MY COMMENTS IN BOLDED BLUE–NASS EVERYTHING you need to know about monkeypox: Strain ‘transmits through sex’ and is about as deadly as the Wuhan Covid variant — but a vaccine does exist Seven cases in UK could be tip of iceberg as health chiefs hunt for common link  First time ever spreading in…

According to CDC, weekly swine flu hospitalizations began dropping the last week of October; the death rate also dropped. UPDATE: I called CDC on Monday, November 9, to ask why this wasn’t updated, as usually occurs on Fridays. I was told that 15 deaths (swine flu) and 3 deaths (non-subtyped influenza A) were reported last…