You can get it even if you NEVER had COVID. I'm not talking about the fatigue you experience WITH COVID.

I'm talking about the mental and emotional fatigue of being in a never-ending pandemic.

I'm so done with this. I'm taking tomorrow off. Just a warning. I may set up an auto-send of some past tweets or something.

Or post something like this:

LOL. That caught a few off-guard and even fooled some. It's fake, by the way. But I have a new comedic hero.

In other news, at least two blasts occurred outside the Kabul airport. Apparently, there are casualties. It also puts the evac. order on hold.

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Among children, older teens are seeing the highest Covid-19 case rates

Coronavirus infections continue to surge among children across the United States, and older teens, ages 16 and 17, are facing the highest rate of weekly cases, according to a new CNN analysis of the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As of Saturday, these teens appear to have the highest rate of infections among not only children, but all age groups, based on the CDC's count of weekly Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people.

There are several factors that help explain why teens have higher Covid-19 case rates: the Delta variant is highly transmissible and they are more likely to interact with others, especially throughout the summer, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told CNN on Wednesday.

Among eligible groups, teens are also the least likely to be vaccinated.

“The simple answer is — you have a virus that's highly infectious. It's going to spread to the people who are most vulnerable, and that's going to be the people who are least likely to be vaccinated,” Benjamin said. “And it's still true that the younger people are still least likely to be vaccinated.”

Earlier on in the pandemic, the original strain of the coronavirus infected older adults and essential workers at high rates, Benjamin said, but now, most of the people in those groups are fully vaccinated.

“As this goes on, who gets exposed changes. Everybody else is vaccinated, they don't get infected, so now we're seeing, at least statistically, the people who are getting infected changing,” Benjamin said.

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Make it a great day!

Bill

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😷 PPS - In case you didn't read the intro above, tomorrow's Sixpack is canceled. Need a mental holiday. See you Monday (I hope).