Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
As feared, increase in Covid positive inpatients now at 49. Rolling 7 day positivity rate 12.53%. Two weeks ago we were at 29 Covid+ inpatients and 7% positivity.
It is prudent to vaccinate and get booster when eligible, avoid congregate settings, mask, distance.
This is the only political story: The things virtually everybody wants can't happen. It strikes at the heart of any claim that we have a functional democracy. Everything else in politics is meant to distract from this. And everyone in the media who participates is complicit.