by Caroline Adana | Dec 8, 2021 | Articles, Healthcare, Opinion
The first reports from South Africa indicated that the COVID-19 Omicron variant might turn out to be a milder version of the coronavirus. Now, more data are emerging, and the numbers look even more positive. When the Omicron variant appeared, many governments...
by Graham J Noble | Dec 5, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Political Humor
Omicron is here. It has appeared in at least 38 countries. The death toll is, well, put it this way: if I had three bananas and gave you three bananas, how many bananas would I have? That’s the death toll from Omicron. Pretty anticlimactic for a variant with such a...
by Andrew Moran | Dec 3, 2021 | Business News, Opinion, Swamponomics
The New York Stock Exchange was a bloodbath the day after Thanksgiving. What’s to blame? For more episodes, please click...
by Kelli Ballard | Dec 3, 2021 | Articles, Politics
The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID has had officials scrambling to decide the best approaches to combat what they fear could be worse than the Delta strain, even though, so far, there have been no cases with severe symptoms or hospitalizations. Now that the...
by Kelli Ballard | Dec 2, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
The first known case of Omicron in the United States was reported on Wednesday, Dec. 1. According to officials, a traveler from South Africa, who flew into San Francisco, CA on Nov. 22, tested positive for the new variant. The patient has mild symptoms, has been...