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June 2, 2025:
“The situation remains serious even in a relative "”’lull.’ >1.5 million weekly estimated infections to result in 600-900 excess deaths.”
A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines
“A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans, some health experts warn.”
Individually optimal choices can be collectively disastrous in COVID-19 disease control
Indoor air systems crucial to curbing spread of viruses, aerosol researchers say | 60 Minutes
‘World Health Organisation Doomed the World by Concealing Evidence of Airborne COVID Transmission’
“A former senior advisor on SARS has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of covering up its own evidence proving the airborne transmission of COVID-19, since the earliest days of the global pandemic. “
Half of Americans never think they'll get COVID again
MASSIVE public health failure, and huge misinformation and propaganda win for both political parties.
“Half of Americans (49%) believe they'll never get COVID again, according to new polling from the Ipsos Consumer Tracker”
Outbreak investigation of airborne transmission of Omicron (B.1.1.529) - SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in a restaurant: Implication for enhancement of indoor air dilution
In May of 2021, Hong Kong required air purifers be placed in their restaurants after papers like this showed that you could be infected in just 19 minutes, median exposure time 34 minutes, while eating at a restaurant.