Diabetes seems to be a complication of covid infection.

Oertel said people want a place to gather, and he hasn’t seen “any evidence” of the coronavirus and doesn’t think it’s anything more than “a bad flu.”

Oertel said he knows he’s violating health orders, but he rejects them and describes them as “torture.”

Slaoui agreed to sell stock worth $12 million and resign from the board of Moderna, the developer of a leading potential vaccine. But Slaoui insisted on keeping his roughly $10 million stake in his former company, GlaxoSmithKline, another contender in the Operation Warp Speed vaccine race. “I won’t leave those shares because that’s my retirement,” he has said.

There are “more than 3.2 million deserted oil and gas wells in the U.S. and one of an estimated 29 million globally, according to Reuters. There's no regulatory requirement to monitor methane emissions from inactive wells, and until recently, scientists didn't even consider wells in their estimates of greenhouse gas emissions. With the pandemic depressing demand for fossil fuels and renewable energy development booming, why should owners idle or plug their wells when they can simply walk away?“

The total number of postal workers testing positive has more than tripled from about 3,100 cases in June to 9,600 in September, and at least 83 postal workers have died from complications of COVID-19, according to USPS. Moreover, internal USPS data shows that about 52,700 of the agency’s 630,000 employees, or more than 8%, have taken time off at some point during the pandemic because they were sick, or had to quarantine or care for family members.

no need to click: headline says it all.

friendly reminder that research publications are notoriously biased-- who can pay the most to publish?

"Several employees told DPH investigators that they saw Ciezynski not wearing a mask during her double shift on July 24. None of them questioned her about it because she was their boss."

“Like poverty and racism, school shootings and police brutality, mass incarceration and sexual harassment, widespread extinctions and changing climate, COVID-19 might become yet another unacceptable thing that America comes to accept.”

Typical BS for kids with chronic conditions: doctors are sympathetic at first, they grow impatient when they don’t spontaneously get well or respond to treatment, so they blame the parents and malingering.

first multiple sclerosis, now transverse myelitis.

These are all things that adults and kids with disabilities have been advocating for, for YEARS.