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The shutdown’s impact on health

It appears that the government shutdown has finally caught up with the CDC . . . none of their Covid demographics were updated this week, and the wastewater data still only goes up till the week ending September 20th . . . I don’t know if the data that they’ve missed will be caught up […]

RFK Jr says no need for COVID vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women

There was a lot going on with Covid last week. I had intended to write about NB.1.8.1, the new “variant under monitoring” by the WHO (World Health Organization), which has already become dominant in China, and the new US vaccine policy, but i just didn’t have time.   r.j. sigmund RFK Jr says no COVID vaccines […]