Variants may undo progress

The United States appears to be bending the pandemic curve. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the coronavirus have fallen steeply from their highs.

But concerning variants are spreading, carrying mutations that make the virus both more contagious and in some cases more deadly. Variants first discovered in Britain, South Africa and Brazil are gaining a foothold, and new U.S. variants have continued to pop up, threatening to postpone the pandemic’s end.

“We don’t have evolution on our side,” said Devi Sridhar, a professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Context: At the moment, most vaccines appear to be effective against the variants. But public health officials are deeply worried that future iterations of the virus may be more resistant, requiring Americans to line up for regular rounds of booster shots or even new vaccines.

Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.

In other developments:

Thanks to Israel’s world-leading vaccine rollout, more than 1,000 people were able to pack the streets of Jerusalem for a Good Friday procession.
The U.S. is averaging more than three million vaccinations a day for the first time.
Britain reported 30 more cases of extremely rare blood clots in people who had received the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, but it is not clear whether any are linked to the vaccine. Even if they are, British and European regulators have said clots were so rare that the vaccine should continue to be used.
Mount Everest is open for pandemic-safe climbing. Nepal, desperate for tourist money, says it has taken steps to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.
The New York Times
Me: The AstraZeneca Vaccine is obviously dangerous, so don’t take it. Also, remember that because these shots are “vaccines”, they are regarded as being made during testing and therefore they are test samples and the producers can’t be prosecuted until they become shots or jabs, or something else, other than “vaccines”.
With indemnity from prosecution, because they are test samples, the makers of vaccines are only looking forwards at sales in competition with each other, not back, at the after effects of what these vaccines potentially could do to the human body and therein is the problem.
If the virus does not kill you off, the vaccine you took potentially could, so take care and hope for the best, if you have to have a vaccine at all. You are the white mouse testing subjects really.
The salt water guy.