13494146, 11/8/2023
Posted by handle, Wed Nov-08-23 10:41 AM
Anecdotal: Covid got 3 people at work who had never had COVID (or never had symptomatic COVID.)
Probably HV.1 spreadin. Coming soon: JN.1.
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Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid on TV - ex-adviser
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67347456
He said Mr Johnson "suggested to senior civil servants and advisers that he wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television to demonstrate to the public that it did not pose a threat".
It was "at a time when Covid was not seen as being the serious disease it subsequently became", he added.
He said it was an "unfortunate comment" that had been "made in the heat of the moment".
He also confirmed his former boss had said letting "the bodies pile high" was preferable to another lockdown.
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Bay Area reinstates COVID mask orders in healthcare settings. Will L.A. follow?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-08/bay-area-reinstates-mask-requirements-in-healthcare-settings-will-l-a-follow
Most San Francisco Bay Area counties are reinstituting mask requirements among workers in healthcare settings, timed to coincide with the arrival of the annual respiratory illness season and an expected late-year resurgence of COVID-19.
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