This is so beautifully written. Easily a top 5 news article of the pandemic. Steady voice, laser accurate, interesting perspectives, and threads the needle of tough nuances and uncertainties.

The New York Times: Moderna Says Trial Suggests Redesigned Vaccines Protect Against Variants. >"Researchers combined Moderna’s existing vaccine with one _...Read More_

"Hospitals in the Mississippi Delta have always been close to the brink. Omicron was the last thing they needed."

"Mink farms threaten to become a source of new coronavirus variants — and an object lesson in how ‘spillback’ can make deadly diseases even deadlier."

Research suggests that the original version of the coronavirus and early variants had an incubation period of about five days, on average. The Delta variant seems to move faster, with an average incubation period of about four days. Omicron _...Read More_

The New York Times: As Omicron Crests, Booster Shots Are Keeping Americans Out of Hospitals. >"Extra vaccine doses were expected to lower infection rates. But the _...Read More_

As Omicron spreads, some experts are calling for a switch to saliva-based tests, which may detect infections days earlier than nasal swabs do.

>"Depending on how you look at the U.S. data for this new variant, the story it tells inspires either relief or dread."

Covid deaths, based on a seven-day moving average, have reached 1,600 per day in the U.S., a 40 percent increase over the previous _...Read More_

>"Lawmakers accused top Biden administration health officials of neglecting virus testing and mangling key messaging around the pandemic."

"Global health experts are casting doubts over reports of a new possible Covid-19mutation that appeared to be a combination of both the delta and omicron variants, dubbed as "deltacron," saying it's more likely that the "strain" is the _...Read More_

>"A new strain of the coronavirus appears to be a genetic fusion of currently known omicron and delta variants, a researcher claims."

>"The variant is spreading fast. For some, it is causing milder illness. But its distinct qualities have left Americans making a new set of calculations."

>"We look back on the pandemic — and ahead to its next phases — with a handful of charts."