“[M]y professional bias influences my priorities: Ensure the vulnerable around us (like grandparents) do not end up in the hospital with COVID-19 (or flu or RSV). This means we are going to do everything in our power to break transmission chains before gathering for the holidays.”
“GISAID, a global database of influenza virus genetic sequences that typically gets thousands of flu sequences each year, has not received a single B/Yamagata sequence with specimen collection data after March 2020.”
“[T]he cases may arise from a co-infection of two different viruses—one of which could be an adenovirus and the other a hitchhiking virus—in children who also happen to have a specific genetic predisposition to hepatitis.”
“When GM began selling leaded gasoline, public health experts questioned its decision. One called lead a serious menace to public health, and another called concentrated tetraethyl lead a ‘malicious and creeping’ poison. General Motors and Standard Oil waved the warnings aside until disaster struck in October 1924.”
“Think of it this way: SARS-CoV-2, the virus, causes COVID-19, the disease — and it doesn’t have to. Vaccination can disconnect the two.”
“[A] new report published in The Lancet describing 41 early cases in the outbreak indicate that the earliest identified person sickened had no epidemiological links to the [Wuhan animal] market.”
(Added November 2022: This was the first thing I posted about the plague, and the first thing that really made me think it might be something that would affect my family.)