May 17, 2021: News Roundup

Katie’s Takes: In The Time Of The Plague If you want to start and keep living life normally, we need vaccinated, and we need to convince others. The pandemic is not over. It is still spreading, it is still mutating. The numbers will get bad again during the winter if we don’t start fixing the

May 13, 2021: News Round Up

Katie’s Takes: Actually Some Good News on the Covid Front Today! The best news today, and yes I am biased, yesterday the CDC also gave approval for vaccinating kids as young as 12. Which means the appointment I made on Monday, for Hulk Child to be vaccinated on Friday morning will be kept! I could

May 12, 2021: News Roundup

Katie’s Takes: I know I’ve been gone from here for a couple days. First things first. Last week I asked if anybody actually read these or if I was wasting my time. And, the general consensus was it was a waste of time, and I’m too word-y. But, a few of you like them. It’s

May 7, 2021: News Roundup

Katie’s Takes: Get Vaccinated, Become a Super Hero, Fight The Super Mutants Moderna is looking for full FDA approval for the vaccine, which will include all teens as well. Pfizer is also pursuing full approval. The population willing to get vaccinated is reaching a saturation point. Slightly more than half the people surveyed have received

May 6, 2021: News Roundup

Katie’s Takes: The Covid Section is long today, but not all bad Research is showing that using a max-and-match approach to vaccines, using one vaccine for dose one, and a different vaccine for dose two, is more effective at boosting immune system response. So, why aren’t we doing it? Well, you may be surprised to

May 5, 2021: News Roundup

Katie’s Takes: I May be Team Moderna, but, I Ain’t Mad About Pfizer. Pfizer is planning to request emergency authorization for the Covid vaccine, for children between the ages of 2-11 by September. It will also apply for full approval, this month, of the vaccine for use in people ages 16-85. So, now the anti-vaxxers

May 4, 2021: News RoundUp

Katie’s Takes: Some days I wake up and look at the articles I’ve saved over the last 24 hours, and think there is no way to make a post with just those 3 articles. So, I go looking. I ALWAYS end up with way too many articles when I do that. So, enjoy, or rage

May 3, 2021: News Roundup

Katie’s Takes: You may have noticed that my WordPress missed a couple days. One day the A/C went out in my house, and I am far enough south, that mattered. So, my office was SO hot. Then, the A/C guy came out to fix it, which meant I had to convince all the dogs it