Two years and 20 million dead
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Omicron: Don’t panic
Omicron is much more transmissible than any SARS-CoV-2 variant so far. But it could also, just possibly, be the beginnings of the long winding road to Covid becoming less deadly.
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Two years later and 17 million dead
By some estimates Covid has killed 17 million people in two years. What will happen in the next two years?
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Pfizer vaccines well over 90% effective against variants
From the New England Journal of Medicine, a very encouraging analysis of the real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against variants of concern.
Read moreLove and isolation: 31 years ago
I moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.
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Self-care in the time of coronavirus
More than 3 months of not going anywhere, doing anything or seeing anybody is getting seriously old. But of course I’ll keep doing it because I do want to actually get old. My mantra for June? Self-care.
Read moreAdventures in homemade hair
Like everyone in Seattle I’ve been reduced to cutting my own hair. My hair needs are simple: cropped close and tidy enough to be able to shampoo, rub it dry with a towel, and leave the house. Except it turns out not to be so simple…
Read moreVICE News interview
VICE News interviews me and other writers/filmmakers about the difference between real and fictional pandemics.
Read moreKitten Report #13: Social distancing
At almost 11 months , Charlie and George struggle to understand shelter-in-place and social distancing.
Read moreCOVID-19: Zones of control
COVID-19 is roaring along. We’re in it for the long haul. I cope by only worrying what’s in my zone of control. Here are my strategies.
Read moreCOVID-19: Numbers game
If you look at the apparent case fatality rate for COVID-19 right here in King County, it’s an eyebrow-raising 18.97% while in South Korea it’s more like 0.65%. Here’s why neither are useful numbers.
Read moreCOVID-19: Now what?
King County, WA is a new epicentre of COVID-19 cases. Here are the precautions I’m taking.
Read moreCOVID-19 update
Here are some facts & figures on COVD-19, plus some unknowns and some opinions.
Read more2019-nCoV, the novel coronavirus: an update
2019-nCoV, or the Wuhan coronavirus, is doing what viruses do and merrily replicating. Here’s a look at the numbers. Followed by a wildly unscientific speculation about the end of the world. Enjoy!
Read more2019-nCoV: the new coronavirus
I’ve been idly following along as the CDC reports on the Wuhan coronavirus, 2019-nCoV. Then my interest sharpened…
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Nicola Griffith 