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COVID Panic Returns
Full-blown COVID panic is back as case numbers spike in 12 countries worldwide. The news first broke early this week when China locked down the city of Shenzhen, forcing 18 million indoors. The lockdown has expanded to 5 cities and 37 million people with more threatened. Each family must remain indoors and can only send one person to the grocery store every 2-3 days. Yikes.
Experts are watching a subvariant of omicron known as BA.2. This mutation is 30% more transmissible than the original omicron variant. Here’s more:
Germany has 250K cases in one day. - WaPo
United States reports 25K daily cases. - CDC
Ashish Jha will be Biden’s new COVID czar. - NYT
Biden interacted with the Irish leader before announcing he is COVID positive. - WaPo
More on the Chinese lockdown. - CNN
U.S. COVID hospitalizations are near a record low. - WSJ
Hunter Biden’s Growing List Of Problems
The New York Post first published an article on Hutner Biden’s laptop in October of 2020. Twitter suspended the Post’s page calling the article disinformation and prohibited anyone from sharing it on the platform. Well, Twitter owes them an apology because the laptop story is very real.
The New York Times has a damning piece out late yesterday on Hunter Biden’s multifaceted legal problems that include the laptop. While Biden was able to pay