It’s true. The URL COVID.gov was hijacked. If you click COVID.gov, you will be taken to a White House page. The words “LAB LEAK” will flash at you as Trump walks toward you. The page once existed on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). When it was a CDC page, it was a page that provided lots of information about COVID-19. Now, controlled by White House luminaries, it claims that the “true origin” of COVID-19 is the Lab Leak theory.
The origin of COVID-19 has been a fundamental question: Was it from nature or a lab? In this post, I’ll be able to shed light on this question. A few days ago, Florence Debarre, a French evolutionary biologist, identified previously undisclosed genetic data from the Wuhan Seafood Market. Her discovery was shared immediately with Kristen Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at Scripps Research, who co-published one of the first research papers on the origin of COVID-19 in 2020. Together they believe these new findings support a natural source of the virus rather than from a lab.
The first case of COVID-19 happened somewhere in China in the Fall of 2019. Covid came calling at a friend’s home sometime before October 27, 2022. This was the first time that they were infected with COVID-19. Their symptoms have been mild, including slight cough. I’ll track their progress and update this post with new data.
COVID-19 is not behind us. Omicron is a reminder that COVID-19 is not only spreading faster than Delta, but that this virus is another mutation as it continues to infect populations around the world. More than 300,000 people a day in the US are getting infected. In fact, the Omicron variant has overtaken Delta in the number of infections each day in most of the world.
The Delta variant is exploding across the United States. Ignorance and callowness is spreading the virus. In Georgia, the situation is serious in all but two counties. What should schools do given what we know?
The CDC said that fully vaccinated people might choose to mask regardless of the level of transmission, especially in crowded inside areas.
