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BLOOD TEST FOR IDENTIFYING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

  How much do Paris Summer Olympics medalists get paid? Olympic medal bonuses Table with 4 columns and 14 rows. Country Gold Silver Bronze Hong Kong $768,000 $384,000 $192,000 Singapore $745,000 $373,000 $186,000 Indonesia $300,000 $150,000 $60,000 Israel $271,000 $216,000 $135,000 Republic of Kazakhstan $250,000 $150,000 $75,000 Malaysia $216,000 $65,000 $22,000 Spain $102,000 $52,000 $33,000 France $87,000 $43,000 $22,000 South Korea $45,000 $25,000 $18,000 United States $38,000 $23,000 $15,000 Japan $32,000 $13,000 $6,000 Poland $25,000 $19,000 $14,000 Germany $22,000 $16,000 $11,000 Australia $13,000 $10,000 $7,000 The bronze medal column will be cut-off in the original blog posting.   But you can see it here . Hong Kong athletes in Paris have  so far won  two golds and two bronze medals .  The last Singaporean athlete to win money was Joseph Schooling (left), who beat Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly at the Rio Games in 2016, winning a gold me...

HAVE YOU HEARD OF HV.1?

Taking a look at the weekly  Worldometer  numbers: Cases during the past week per million population, Singapore  2617 New Zealand  693 Russia 283 Germany 273 USA  146 Hong Kong 31 World  24 But, again, many countries have stopped reporting. HV.1 is now the dominant Covid variant  in the U.S.  It is of course a subvariant of Omicron, as are all the prevalent strains today. First appeared this summer. By October overtook EG.5 (also known as Eris), and is now responsible for one-third of all Covid-19 cases.  HV.1 is a sublineage of Omicron SBB.1.9.2, and a direct descendent of EG,5. #3 is FL.1.5,1, also known as Fornax. Eris, or EG.5, remains as the #1 world strain. Health experts say there is no reason to panic about HV.1, although it is good at spreading to others.  Does not produce more hospitalizations. Can be detected by standard tests.  And, by the way, health insurance plans are required to reimburse eight at-home Covid-19 tests...

COVID: Should you travel today?

My answer to the query above is no.  However, COVID-19 deaths are continuing to decline, and if you're fully vaccinated and boosted twice, and will take a third booster in the fall, traveling will very soon be no different than during the normal flu season.  Of course you should not listen to me.  Here is the latest  CDC travel map . Anticipating the best, we are looking forward to going to the Orient in late October, spending some Fall colors time in Japan, followed by a 12-day Celebrity Millennium cruise from Yokohama to Singapore.  Taking data from  Worldometer , here are the pandemic conditions on all our planned stops. Okinawa: My travel mate has been looking forward to the Okinawa  7th Worldwide Uchinanchu Taikai Festival  from October 30 to November 3. 6th gathering in Naha drew 7,353 people from 29 countries and 430,000 attendees. This is the 50th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan. Approximately 420,000 people from Okinawa have m...