Advisors at NIH are calling for better oversight of experiments with viruses that could turn out to be harmful. More harmful would not necessarily mean more lethal; it could mean more transmissible. I had to wonder as I read this whether such oversight would hamper research into those viruses, research that might be potentially as worthwhile as it could be some negative aspect.
The New York City mayor is ending the private employer vaccine mandate on November 1 but keeping in place the mandate for city employees. The city is setting up a campaign to encourage people to get covid boosters as well as other needed vaccinations. The mandate for K-12 students participating in extracurricular activities is also ending.
The UK may be starting an autumn covid wave; covid hospitalizations rose 20 percent in one week. Some experts think this wave could be worse than the last one. In the week ending September 14, one in 70 people had covid; that would be a total of around 766,500. UK experts are monitoring BA 4.6, BF.7, BA.2.75.2, and BQ.1.1. Cases of those last two variants are growing quickly, and a wave of multiple variants could prove problematic. As I typed all those letters and numbers, I was thinking names, Greek or otherwise, would greatly simplify reporting.
And that's it from here, where I have to get on some cleaning and straightening up for company tomorrow. And wonder of wonders, the morning's covid test was a big fat nothing. I'm hoping the one in 48 hours will be as well.
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Here's to another negative test (finally), and a good time with tomorrow's visitors.
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