My colleague has simply come down with covid-19. The onset of signs was speedy, and he or she described it as “like being hit by a freight train.” “How very retro of you,” one other colleague commented. Another replied: “This is still a thing?”
As a well being reporter who has been masking covid because the early days, I’m nonetheless requested this query on a reasonably common foundation. And greater than three years in, there are nonetheless some huge, unanswered questions on the subject of covid. We nonetheless don’t actually know the place this specific coronavirus got here from, and our understanding of lengthy covid continues to be patchy at greatest. But we do comprehend it continues to trigger infections, illness—and dying. Read the total story.
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1 Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads
It claims that Meta poached former Twitter staff to create the “copycat” app. (Semafor)
+ Impressively, Threads sign-ups have surged previous the 30 million mark. (WP $)
+ It’s additionally already internet hosting a whopping 95 million posts. (The Verge)
+ Threads has what different Twitter rivals don’t: a built-in person base. (Wired $)