Thursdays have shifted from Covid to anything of medical or lifestyle worthiness.  But to start, I count ten pandemic waves: The tenth one was tiny, and occurred this past summer.  Will there be an eleventh? There usually is a winter uptick in respiratory virus ailments, as is expected for some combination of the seasonal flu, Covid and RSV. 15 Craigside has schedule a day next week to administer the updated Covid vaccine.  Everyone should get this shot. Reduces symptoms, hospitalization rate and death. Latest data seem to indicated that  vaccinated people are less liable to get Long Covid . How terrible was this Covid Pandemic? Nearly 7 million people died, a mortality rate of just under 0.1% of the world population. The USA Covid mortality rate is 0.34%.  This is more than three times the world average.  However, the world count is known to be too low. During the 14th century, the bubonic plague, or Black Death, killed 25 million Europe, a  mortality rate of around 33% . The Spanish