By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Previously in this series of round-ups, we looked at Covid and global GDP, as well as GDP in various counties; at the effects of interventions,…
Taïna Cenatus, a 29-year-old culinary student in Haiti, lost her balance at school one day this month and toppled over, but it was not until she hit the ground that…
Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother of two in Chicago, is reminded of the Covid-19 pandemic every day. Sometimes it happens when she picks up her children from day care and…
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How…
Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more…
Further down, we have hoisted a long comment from Lambert eviscerating the new CDC guidance for Covid, treating it as just another respiratory virus, which as he points out, will…
Yves here. The evidence of Covid-19-induced damage is becoming both more solid and more grim. I had previously though that the cognitive impact of a case of Covid-19 was a…
Jennifer Caldwell was active and energetic, working two jobs and taking care of her daughter and her parents, when she developed a bacterial infection that was followed by intense lightheadedness,…
Much of the world has decided that most young children do not need to receive Covid booster shots. It’s true in Britain, France, Japan and Australia. Some countries, like India,…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. This headline from CalMatters sums up where we are with so-called “public health” these days: “California ends COVID isolation rule for asymptomatic cases as winter…