... In Singapore, the government has ruled that an unvaccinated person who gets COVID will have to cover costs for COVID care (“Singapore’s Unvaccinated Will Have to Foot $18,000 Covid Bills Now,” https://www.bloomberg.com/
A parallel fight rages in the insurance sector: Who will pay for the health care of people who accept no COVID vaccine but then demand a monoclonal antibody treatment if they become sick?
... One variant recently in the news, B.1.640, detected in October in France, has not been categorized as a “variant of concern” or a “variant of interest” by the WHO, the CDC, etc., and thus does not make the long list on the UK page above (“New COVID-19 Variant Identified in France: Concern Rises Amid Surge in Cases,” https://fit.thequint.com/
There are some epidemiologists who suspect the B.1.640 variant is not being detected by many tests which show a negative result when applied to a patient with COVID-like symptoms.
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