The New York Times reported this morning: Also: The share of Covid tests coming back positive has fallen below 3 percent for the first time since widespread testing began, and the number of hospitalized patients has fallen to the lowest point in 11 months, Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute noted . Worldwide, the pandemic is also on the decline: The Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956, and has been held annually since then, skipping 2020 because of the pandemic. That's Tix, the Fallen Angel, from Norway. The 2021 version from the Netherlands is tomorrow: The Guardian has a roundup of this year’s entries , including Ukrainian folk-techno and an Azerbaijani ode to a wartime spy . If you live in the U.S., you can watch the program live on Peacock. Or click on THIS for other options. This is the contest that got ABBA and Celine Dion going. Jennifer Kavanaugh of Rand released an article today called How Truth Decay is Fueling Vaccine Hesitancy :
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