Source: Hank Campbell, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 10/13/21

As we are hopefully exiting the third coronavirus pandemic of the last 17 years, it is time to consider that it might become an annual event, like the flu. Since it mutates, there could also be an annual vaccine, but if flu is any indication half of people won’t take it. What if there are more passive ways of preventing transmission? A new epidemiology paper – the good kind of epidemiology, not the kind that says bacon is as bad for your health as plutonium or that coffee strained through a cheap paper filter increases lifespan – found that smokers get less COVID-19.

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