New COVID âSuper Strainsâ Could Disrupt Life Again
Jan. 6, 2021 After 10 months of masks, social distancing, virtual school, fear for vulnerable loved ones, and loneliness, this is the news no one wanted to hear: The virus that causes COVID-19 has changed once again in ways that make it more contagious.
At least one new âsuper strainâ of the virus is already in the U.S. Another highly contagious strain from South Africa could be on its way. As bad as things are now, experts believe these new strains are not responsible for the spike in cases seen in many states as people fall ill after holiday travel.
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A worker places boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on a truck to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
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The temperature on a freezer reads -69 degrees Celsius as workers move boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
Federico Olivas is a respiratory therapist at the University of Washington Medical Center. Credit: Eilis O Neill/KUOW It s a different perspective: How having Covid-19 himself changed this respiratory therapist Dec 21, 2020
His perspective on Covid changed when he got the disease himself this November.
I went to work and I was feeling normal. But around 12 o clock or one o clock, I started feeling very hot. And it wasn t your normal hot because you re walking around, moving around, things like that. It was a little different.
And then I started feeling shivering. And as soon as I felt that, then I was like, Okay, I need to go, just in case.
IN THOSE DAYS we were held by water. I came into being by an abyss, the deepest sea in the world. My parents raised me on a forty-three-foot sailboat in the Southern Hemisphere. For twelve years, the world settled on us as brine and brushed our toes with kelp. Even now when I think of touch, I think of ocean.
By way of explanation, I used to say about writing that the process involves taking discrete ideas and throwing them up in the dark as star tacks. You write yourself from one sharp point to another and back again, tacking and threading. When you stop and step back, a constellation takes shape, and there is meaning in the shape. If you are very lucky, there is meaning behind the shape.