COVID’s effect on your heart: https://news.yahoo.com/how-covid-19-can-affect-your-heart-health-203756992.html . In short, because COVID causes significant inflammation, it can damage almost any organ in your body. That includes the heart. The article also tells us that COVID causes more blood clotting than any other disease.
COVID’s effect on your brain: https://sports.yahoo.com/even-mild-covid-19-damage-160000068.html . The impairment of cognitive function looks like 1 to 10 years of aging. Swell.
Omicron may create less long COVID than other variants: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/omicron-patients-may-develop-long-covid-less-frequently-than-those-who-had-other-variants-study-finds/ar-AAXAxXG?cvid=75ccebfdc436417c9a656065a8ecced8 .
Hospitals ration CT scans due to shortage of contrast dyes: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shortage-contrast-dye-hospitals-ration-ct-scans-procedures-rcna29379 . The shortage is being caused by the Zero COVID lockdown around Shanghai. The company involved is GE. The pandemic is hammering the logic of stripping redundancies out of the global supply chain.
First infant formula shipment arrives: https://apnews.com/article/biden-health-indianapolis-00f39fd46778ecdd543c22f3630d79ba . The 78,000 pounds of formula is for babies with special nutritional needs. It has arrived in Indianapolis, where it will move to a nearby Nestle distribution center for shipment to hospitals, pharmacies and doctors’ offices. WSJ: Background: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-is-there-a-baby-formula-shortage-11652188230 .
Religious backers of abortion rights say God is on their side: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-religion-alabama-2efb7c0ca49d6d7260773aad5ee956fa . Right answer, but wrong reason. The Constitution prescribes the separation of church and state. The opinion that life begins at conception is a religious opinion, and clearly others disagree. The religious have the right to refuse abortions for themselves, but not for others.
The most unique feature in the Constitution is the Bill of Rights (added by the people as 10 amendments). The most fundamental right of an individual is the right to control over their own body. So women and men cannot be equal until this fundamental right is fully extended to women.
As COVID cases rise, Beijing extends work-from-home order: https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-shanghai-government-and-politics-1f5e5bfed882dd5156f68129ba616eb4 . Yet another item enters the “Zero COVID failure” book (currently compiled from home).
North Korea “fever” breaks, reported cases under 200,000 for second day: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-05-22/north-koreas-fever-cases-under-200-000-for-2nd-day-amid-silence-on-aid-offer . North Korea’s data continues to make no sense.
Good news, bad news on Putin’s departure: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-will-be-in-a-sanatorium-and-out-of-power-by-2023-former-british-intelligence-chief-predicts/ar-AAXATYc?cvid=8bd0a6d1ea7d43c3bab305337cbaff0b . But Patrushev would not exactly be an improvement over Putin: https://news.yahoo.com/critical-race-theory-poison-gas-and-organ-harvesting-how-the-kremlin-is-trying-to-frame-the-war-in-ukraine-as-a-clash-of-cultures-and-civilizations-153424329.html .
Russians ban almost 1,000 prominent Americans, but not Orange Julius: https://www.aol.com/news/russia-bans-963-americans-country-182049231.html . They even banned (dead) John McCain. So apparently they are not as sophisticated in using the Internet as we thought.