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How 'Station Eleven' Told a Pandemic Story That Didn't Depress the Shit Out of Us
Long before anyone had heard about Covid-19, Patrick Somerville was pitching Station Eleven as “a postapocalyptic show about joy.” Somerville’s largely faithful adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel’s 2015 novel takes place 20 years after a particularly nasty flu strain has wiped out 99 percent of the world’s population. It’s a world mostly without electricity and the other creature comforts of the reality we know. But unlike on traditional postapocalyptic dramas The Walking Dead or The Stand...
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Yes, a Raging Pandemic Can Be Quelled. Recent History Shows How.
On a visit to a public hospital in a farming community in late November, I saw something that astonished me. Empty beds. Rows of them, their black plastic-covered mattresses stripped of sheets. Blue privacy curtains folded up over rails, out of the way. I had never seen a Zambian hospital like this. When I last toured one, nearly 15 years ago, patients lay two or three to a bed, head-to-feet-to-head. And more on the floor. More on thatch mats in the hallways. The patients were gaunt, their eyes huge above sunken cheeks. Hopelessness and suffering hung in the air.
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Adults over 50 saw physical decline even with mild cases of COVID-19: study
Even a mild case of COVID-19 can result in higher odds of decreased mobility and physical function for adults aged 50 years and older, according to a new national study, putting a spotlight on how hundreds of thousands could need physical rehabilitation due to this pandemic.
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Newsom signs executive order outlawing price gouging of COVID-19 at-home test kits
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order aimed at preventing price gouging of at-home COVID-19 test kits. The order, announced Saturday, prohibits sellers from increasing previous prices for the self-test kits by more than 10%. A nationwide shortage of those kits has led to price gouging, with some people reselling the kits for five times as much as they paid for them.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Recovering at Home After Testing Positive for Breakthrough COVID-19
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19. According to a statement released on Ocasio-Cortez's Twitter on Sunday, the Brooklyn-based Democratic congresswoman is symptomatic, despite being fully vaccinated and boostered.
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Overwhelmed by Omicron surge, U.S. hospitals delay surgeries
Hospitals across the United States are postponing elective surgeries to free up staff and beds due to a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Administrators say hospital staff shortages have been compounded in the last month by medical practitioners isolating or quarantining as they themselves are infected or exposed to the virus.
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Gal Gadot Now Admits Her Cover of “Imagine” Was in “Poor Taste”
The 'Wonder Woman' star posted a video in March 2020 of herself and some famous friends singing the John Lennon hit as a response to the start of the COVID-19 lockdown.
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France's Bogdanoff TV twins die of Covid six days apart
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff had hosted a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s.
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Anti-Vaxxers Spread Lies Online About Betty White's Death
Anti-vaccine activists have spent the past few days spreading lies about Betty White, the beloved actress who passed away at 99 years old on Dec. 31. But contrary to internet rumors, Betty White didn’t die after getting a covid-19 booster shot. “Betty died peacefully in her sleep at her home. People are saying her death was related to getting a booster shot three days earlier but that is not true,” White’s agent, Jeff Witjas, told Yahoo Entertainment.
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‘Crazy’ omicron surge could peak soon, but the virus is unpredictable as the pandemic enters its third year
The rapid surge of omicron infections in the United States may be relatively brief, measured in weeks rather than months, according to infectious-disease experts who have been astonished by the speed of the coronavirus variant’s spread — and who are hoping this wave ebbs just as quickly.
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Covid Will Become Endemic. The World Must Decide What That Means
The task of 2022 will be figuring out how much action we’re willing to take and how much disease and death we’ll tolerate.
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CES 2022 will close a day early because of COVID concerns
CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas, and the show will now end on January 7th, the Consumer Technology Association announced today. The shorter schedule is “an additional safety measure” in the face of a surge of COVID-19 diagnoses.
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Omicron is spreading at lightning speed. Scientists are trying to figure out why
In late November, more than 110 people gathered at a crowded Christmas party at a restaurant in Oslo, Norway. Most of the guests were fully vaccinated. One had returned from South Africa just a few days earlier and was unknowingly carrying the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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‘Crazy’ omicron surge could peak soon, but the virus is unpredictable as the pandemic enters its third year
The rapid surge of omicron infections in the United States may be relatively brief, measured in weeks rather than months, according to infectious-disease experts who have been astonished by the speed of the coronavirus variant’s spread — and who are hoping this wave ebbs just as quickly.
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Omicron infection appears to protect against Covid delta variant and could displace it, South Africa study finds
People infected with the heavily mutated omicron variant of Covid-19 may have increased immune protection against delta, a new study says. As a consequence, omicron could displace delta, according to the small study published by South African scientists this week.
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Early studies suggest a reduced risk of Covid-19 hospitalization when infected with Omicron compared to Delta
Two new preprint papers add to the growing evidence that the Omicron coronavirus variant may be less likely to cause severe disease and hospitalization compared to the Delta variant.
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Massive New Bird Flu Outbreak Could Be 2022’s Deadly Pandemic
Israel’s National Security Council has assumed control of a massive bird flu outbreak in the Galilee, which scientists warn could become a “mass disaster” for humans. Over half a billion migrating birds pass through the area every year, heading for warm African winters or balmy European summers, making this a catastrophic location for a major bird flu outbreak—right at the nexus of global avian travel.
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COVID infection reduces sperm quality for up to three months, study claims
Men who become infected with coronavirus can suffer reduced sperm quality for up to three months, a new study has suggested. Research carried out on 120 men in Belgium by local academics showed that semen is "not infectious" with COVID-19 and therefore cannot be transmitted through sexual contact.
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NHL announces enhanced COVID-19 measures amid rise in cases
The National Hockey League (NHL) has announced enhanced COVID-19 measures which include daily testing and restrictions amid the emergence of the Omicron variant and a recent increase in positive cases among teams, it said on Saturday.
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Anti-Vax Republican Who Refused to Certify Biden’s Michigan Win Dies of COVID
A Michigan election official who bought into election conspiracies and temporarily refused to certify President Joe Biden’s win last November, died of COVID-19. It’s unclear if he was vaccinated, but he repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus and compared vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.
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