For three years, ever since the Covid 19 pandemic hit the United States in 2020, there have been two factions at war over the origins of Covid. One group says Covid came from bats in the caves near Wuhan, China. Another group says that Covid was a virus cooked up by the Chinese in their
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As we continue to navigate this post-pandemic era, the topics of personal and public health matters remain as globally relevant and pressing in each of our lives as ever before. With the continued rise of upper respiratory infections (URIs) like the cold and flu, along with COVID-19, its many variants, and other “superbugs” that have
The biggest covid news of this moment is that there are two anti-covid pills in development, one from Pfizer and one from Merck. Pfizer’s pill is in what is called phase 2/3 trials, trials that compare the new drug with a standard treatment. Merck’s is in phase 3, being tried on up to 3,000 patients.
Nature is not a conservationist. And she is not nurturing and kind. In fact, she has a nasty habit of destroying herself. She tosses a tantrum, tears up her existing order, and forces her children to deal with the remains. We call her supersized rages natural disasters. And they are as common as lightning bolts