All ebb, no flow.
The US is now averaging 700,000 new Covid cases per day. / USA Today
A malfunctioning space heater caused a fire in a Bronx apartment building that killed 19 people, including nine children. / News 12 Brooklyn
With Omicron, pediatric hospitalizations—while still the lowest compared to other groups—have hit their highest rate in the pandemic so far. / BuzzFeed News
Hospitalization and ICU data show that, like Delta before it, the Omicron appears more severe in the US than Europe. / Intelligencer
Ed Yong: "When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like." / The Atlantic
See also: Lying flat without health insurance is very uncomfortable. / Bloomberg Opinion
Though it's possible for coronavirus variants to recombine, "deltacron" appears to be a lab mistake, not a new strain. / Quartz
What about "flurona?" Well that's real, but getting two viruses at once is not uncommon. / The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Billions are flowing into the industry—and barely a cent is going toward the creation of new music." On music icons selling off their catalogs. / The Baffler
The new era of fashion bootlegging: making your own parodies—or paeans—of well-known pieces. / GQ
A database of slaveholding members of Congress shows how they shaped the future of America. / The Washington Post
Each of Manchester's highly criticized electronic advertising billboards use the same amount of electricity of three households. / The Guardian
A developer appears to have intentionally corrupted open-source libraries, rendering countless projects by others useless. / The Verge
Watch: A giant slab of meat made from Lego, roasting over an open fire (also made from Lego). / Laughing Squid
See also: A backyard cookout rendered in felt, in a video short by Andrea Love. / The Morning News
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