Pages Tagged “flu”
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- Oh No! They’ve Escaped!
Cage-free eggs, egg-free cage, what’s the difference?
- …Or Was It?
With more symptoms being added to the list for Covid-19, I’m beginning to think I should have gone in for a flu test when I had the flu at the beginning of March. At the time, chills, muscle aches and headache (and lack of coughing) seemed like a clear “not Covid” indicator. I was staying […]
- Flu in the time of Covid-19
Last weekend, after spending Saturday running errands and Sunday taking care of stuff around the house, I went out to de-stress with a photo-walk at the coast, taking pictures of shorebirds, waves, sailboats, sand patterns and a zillon tiny shells. On the way back I started feeling aches and chills, and by evening I had […]
- Mild Cases of Coronavirus
The Washington Post points out that 82% of covid-19 cases identified so far are mild, basically a bad cold. Virologists are trying to determine: How many more mild cases haven’t been counted? And what factors cause some cases to be mild and others lethal? There are several coronaviruses that already circulate globally and just cause […]
- First Line, Last Line, Whatever
There’s an ad for flu shots promoting them as the “first line of defense” against the flu. Someone doesn’t quite get the metaphor.
- Flu Away
After waiting two months, I finally got my H1H1 flu vaccine, which the CDC has been recommending for people with chronic respiratory conditions.
- Pandemic Question
Why didn’t WHO declare A(H1N1) flu to be a phase 6 pandemic several weeks ago when it first met the published criteria?
- Name That Flu!
Some ideas for the #namethatflu event on Twitter (on the idea that swineflu isn’t quite right, but H1N1 is too clinical). Total Flunacy OMGWTFBBFlu!! (Though I have to admit #hamthrax is a good one) Looks like Hamthrax has been chosen by the Masters of the Fluniverse
- Naming the Flu
Swine flu? H1N1? Mexican flu? Does the name even matter?
- Social Side of Swine Flu
Sad, but true: XKCD tackles the social component of swine flu. Update: Things haven’t changed much in the Covid era, have they?
- Amazon Annoyance, ATM Stupidity
Grr. Amazon wants to stop paying me because they think I’ve been buying search keywords to link to them. No, I haven’t. Update: Two days later, they responded: it’s a bad form letter, and even if I were buying keywords, they’d only stop paying referral fees on those links. More concerned than usual about person […]
- Flu Fighters
According to Marketplace, critics of President Bush’s flu pandemic preparedness proposal contend that it’s too focused on vaccines and antiviral drugs, and that the money would be more effectively used by monitoring outbreaks and trying to stamp out bird flu in the third world. In other words, they say we should take the fight to […]