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Covid Party’s latest story gets a twist

Covid party insanity continues to sweep the nation, or at least the nation’s news organizations. The latest example comes from Texas, where a 30-year-old man is said to have confessed on his deathbed that he had attended one. “Just before the patient died,” announced Jane Appleby, medical director of Methodist …

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Llamas, yes, llamas, could help us fight Covid-19

Millions of years An unknown common ancestor of today’s llamas, camels and alpacas underwent an unusual genetic mutation. This evolutionary occurrence gave llamas and their relatives a strange type of antibody that no other mammal has, which, surprisingly, could end up aiding in the fight against Covid-19. This Monday in …

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