Armando Iannucci wrote an epic poem about COVID-19. “I have written a mock epic. Epics are, by definition, very long but “mock” permits brevity. It’s a poem in the style of those daunting but rather wonderful depictions of love and loss and the battle …
The mandate has arrived
The President finally announced new requirements for vaccination. In the speech made Thursday, President Biden outlined new rules that would require all federal workers and contractors, as well as employees of all businesses with over 100 employees wou…
The Challenges of Emerging from Lockdown
Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World [slLitHub]
Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse. Despite long-haulers’ fight for recognition, any discussion of the pandemic still largely revolves around two extremes—good health at one…
Ableism is one of our society’s greatest failings
Death by a Thousand Words: COVID-19 and the Pandemic of Ableist Media [Refinery29] by Imani Barbarin.
When it comes to ableism, non-disabled people are fairly predictable and uncreative. So, watching as the media repeated over and over that the “heal…
Delta Air Lines to require workers be vaccinated or pay
Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that it will require employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face the alternative of weekly testing and a $200 monthly surcharge for health insurance. (SLWaPo) (alt, non-paywall source) Unvaccinated employee…
Never going back again
[Covid related] I, too, was extremely excited to see friends without the necessary, tortured conversations about exposures, testing, and local positivity rates. I, too, yearned to have a long, carefree meal at a restaurant and sit at a favorite bar. I …
Put this Covid vaccine up your nose
According to an article published in Science magazine in July, almost 100 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are currently in clinical trials in various places around the world, but only seven are are delivered intranasally. Intranasal vaccines have a potential to do…
What’s a conspiracy theory that you 1,000% believe in?
TikTok user Akintoye has a message about vaccines. (Single-link TikTok video; also available on Twitter.)
Pharmaceutical firms: our for-profit public health agencies
Pfizer and Moderna just raised prices for their COVID vaccines in the EU. And they’re still not producing enough vaccines to go around. As Matt Stoller details, the Biden administration was supposed to break the vaccine monopoly in order to make it pos…