Posted by Arden Henley | Feb 15, 2021 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news
By Ross Thrasher The goal of “herd immunity” against COVID-19, whereby enough people are protected (by vaccines or recovery from infection) that the disease no longer circulates. may not be truly achievable in 2021. It is believed that at least two-thirds... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Feb 8, 2021 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle
By Ross Thrasher There are growing global worries about the development of new strains of the COVID-19 virus. The variant originally detected in the United Kingdom, labelled B117, has now spread around the world. This variant seems to be 50% more contagious than the... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Feb 1, 2021 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle
by Ross Thrasher Pandemic fatigue is popping up all over the planet, with widespread street protests, violations of closure restrictions, even torching a testing facility in the Netherlands. The economic and psychological costs of lockdowns are driving people to... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Jan 24, 2021 | climate change, Covid-19, international news
By Ross Thrasher The world is now approaching 100 million COVID-19 cases, and 2.1 million have died from the pandemic. So the global Infection Fatality Rate is just over 2%. But the age distribution of this IFR is heavily skewed. A recent analysis of 27 studies across... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Jan 3, 2021 | Covid-19, international news
By Ross Thrasher 2020 has truly been a year of living dangerously, as the coronavirus pandemic has brought the world to a halt and killed millions. We have seen the limitations of voluntary compliance with public-health guidelines, and the perilous consequences of... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Nov 1, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news
by Ross Thrasher OMG, global pandemic cases have topped 500,000 in three of the past four days. This is unprecedented territory. For the month of October the worldwide totals are 13M new cases and 200K deaths (both one-month records). This brings the overall COVID...