"White House declares monkeypox a public health emergency"
"We are prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said to reporters during a briefing on Thursday.
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New York State declares monkeypox a disaster
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state disaster emergency over the monkeypox outbreak, a move she says will enable the state to ramp up its vaccine distribution as case counts grow.
New York currently has the most recorded monkeypox cases of any state, accounting for more than a quarter of the 5,189 cases nationwide. Hochul’s emergency declaration will allow a greater number of health professionals to administer the vaccine, according to the New York Times, and it directs state agencies to help local governments respond to the virus. In California, which has the second-largest number of infections, the city of San Francisco also recently declared a state of emergency.
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"New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild"
The research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science, shows that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was likely the early epicenter of the scourge that has now killed nearly 6.4 million people around the world. Scientists conclude that the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, likely spilled from animals into people two separate times.
“All this evidence tells us the same thing: It points right to this particular market in the middle of Wuhan,” said Kristian Andersen a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research and coauthor of one of the studies. “I was quite convinced of the lab leak myself until we dove into this very carefully and looked at it much closer.”
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What Is Monkeypox and Should We Be Worried About It?
I didn't know anything about the disease. This is a very top level Q&A that asks the main questions people wonder about and gives no-nonsense answers. There is still much we don't know about MonkeyPox, but it does not appear to be the next Covid.
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The verdict is in: No one pandemics like Seattle
The news this past week that Seattle has become the "most vaccinated city" — the first of the 30 largest U.S. metros to reach 70% fully vaxxed — is just the capper to a curious 16-month odyssey. We started out as Ground Zero for an infectious disease outbreak, but then watched as it took off and slammed everywhere else much harder than it ever did here.
As exciting as that is, this is the most exciting for me:
On Friday, Seattle reported just four new cases. How have we, mostly, escaped?
The article then goes to ask if the Seattle Freeze way of life helped us beat the pandemic because we all hate gathering in groups already.
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Brazil is getting vaccines from China
Which is good, they need them. I was speaking with a friend in Sao Paulo yesterday and she was telling me how bad it has gotten there. They have more daily cases than we have here in the US, and we have 1.5x their population. They still aren't as bad as the US was during it's peak, but that is still a bad place for them to be.
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The finish line is in sight, and I am so angry that Texas has decided now is the time to stop finishing the race.
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Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: First deaths since 2016
This isn't great, hopefully it gets controlled very quickly and doesn't get worse
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Tolkien pub the Lamb & Flag is to close after 450 years
Pour out a pint friends. It makes sense to close it, and legally the university has to. I'm sure once the Pandemic is over and restaurants and pubs can return to business someone will open it in a new location, but... it won't be the same. As a Tolkien fan I'm sad I was never able to make it over and see it, though I'm sure the atmosphere isn't the same as when Tolkien and Lewis were there.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on Facebook:
I said this to someone in the comments, but I think a lot of you need to hear this.
I always say you should know your strengths and listen to the experts. If you want to learn about building biceps, listen to me, because I've spent my life studying how to get the perfect peak and I have been called the greatest bodybuilder of all time. We all have different specialties.
Dr. Fauci and all of the virologists and epidemiologists and doctors have studied diseases and vaccines for their entire lives, so I listen to them and I urge you to do the same. None of us are going to learn more than them by watching a few hours of videos. It's simple: if your house in [sic] on fire, you don't go on YouTube, you call the damn fire department. If you have a heart attack, you don't check your Facebook group, you call an ambulance. If 9 doctors tell you you have cancer and need to treat it or you will die, and 1 doctor says the cancer will disappear, you should always side with the 9. In this case, virtually all of the real experts around the world are telling us the vaccine is safe and some people on Facebook are saying it isn't safe.
In general, I think if the circle of people you trust gets smaller and smaller and you find yourself more and more isolated, it should be a warning sign that you're going a rabbit hole of misinformation. Some people say it is weak to listen to experts. That's bogus. It takes strength to admit you don't know everything. Weakness is thinking you don't need expert advice and only listening to sources that confirm what you want to believe.
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Dr. Fauci to lead U.S. delegation at WHO meetings as Biden plans to reverse Trump withdrawal
I can't handle this logical and sane news that is flooding out of Washington D.C.
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