The Covid bivalent vaccine booster works better than expected.
I've reviewed the cumulative data
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-bivalent-vaccine-booster-outperforms

That's in contrast to a
NEJM essay today and 2 lab studies that used a pseudovirus assay without assessing the XBB variants

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Everyone take a sec & double check their plugins for the latest Jenkins security patches before something goes wrong.

There are more than 144,000 Internet-exposed Jenkins servers that could be targeted - don't be one of them.
#ZeroDay

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jenkins-discloses-dozens-of-zero-day-bugs-in-multiple-plugins/

PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!

the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with

Almost no one has antigen tests- scalpers bought them all up, so no one really knows, but I'd say 80% of my almost entirely urban WeChat follower list is infected, extremely pissed off both that they can't get meds, and that it is most definitely not "like the flu".

RT @[email protected]

@[email protected] what is your take on the western media headlines about Chinese case numbers and new death count methods? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-23/china-estimates-covid-surge-is-infecting-37-million-people-a-day

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