We Are the World

Whether we choose to believe it or not, we’re all in this Covid thing together. As long as swaths of the world are unvaccinated, variants will emerge. We need a cheap vaccine any country can make. And we may have one, in Texas. A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer. “The real beauty of the CORBEVAX vaccine that Drs. Hotez and Bottazzi created is that intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody … So you can get manufacturers in Senegal, and South Africa and Latin America to be able to produce this particular vaccine.”

+ From Vox: Rapid tests, omicron, and you. “Should we be swabbing our noses or our throats for at-home tests? Do rapid tests even detect omicron at all? Are PCR tests the only results we can trust right now?” (I’m, er, asking for a friend…)

+ LAT: Orange County reports third COVID-19 death of a child younger than 5