*** VIRUS NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

• Editor’s note: I have reported here several times about some health care workers being fired or forced out of their jobs because of not receiving the vaccine. Yet, some of these people already had COVID19.
• Shouldn’t these vital workers be permitted to return to work, with appropriate precautions, because at this critical time, we need them far more than any risk they pose?

CBS News: Red Cross declares ‘first-ever’ national blood crisis, pleads for donations amid pandemic – O positive and O negative donations are especially in demand.

Daily Kos: COVID-19 is still with us, but it’s fading as a chief concern for Americans in 2022

The Defender: A 26-year-old South Dakota man who died Nov. 12, 2021, of myocarditis — four days after his third booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine…According to the autopsy report and certificate of death, Joseph died from severe heart damage from “myocarditis in the left ventricle due to the recent Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccine.”

CNBC: United cuts flights as about 3,000 workers call out sick from Covid

CNBC: Over 50% of Europeans will be infected with omicron in next 2 months: WHO

KING-5 TV: Research finds lungs may be resistant to omicron variant

CNBC: Facebook delays return to office until March, Covid-19 boosters required

CNBC: Omicron-specific vaccine is coming, but it ‘may not matter—everybody’s going to be infected’: Expert