Earlier this week, a judge overturned the transportation mask mandate, which I covered here. I will also be covering the situation in China in its own post.
No one asked this time around, but a friend recommends this P100 mask if you’re looking to go big rather than go home.
The biggest other news is that Omicron continues to cycle into new variants.
- There’s BA.2.1.12, there’s BA.4 and there’s BA.5.
- All seem to be more infectious than BA.2.
- Which was more infectious than BA.1.
- Which was much more infectious than Delta.
- Which was more infectious than Alpha.
- Which was more infectious than the original strain.
We’ve come a long way. China is still attempting Zero Covid, which I will cover in the China post, but that is looking more and more like state failure to adapt to reality than a reasonable policy choice. Covid-19 is here to stay, at least until we can get a nasal vaccine that prevents transmission, research towards which is not currently something we are even willing to properly fund.
Executive Summary
- Moderna booster candidate looks great.
- Cases and deaths radically down on paper due to Easter, mostly ignore.
- Things increasingly returning to normal, travel mask mandates lifting.
- China situation is scary, will be covering that in its own posts.