'The Late Show' Pauses Taping New Episodes As Stephen Colbert Experiences 'COVID' Again - THR News
'The Late Show' is hitting pause again, while host Stephen Colbert deals with what may be a “recurrence” of COVID-19.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stephen-colbert-covid-recurrence-1235143439/
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heard it on the radio here this morning.
We are NOT "back to normal" and I hope Stephen can kick this thing and it doesn't manifest into long COVID if he has gone on this long with it (unless this is actually a re-infection since his last exposure, which is a possibility since the incidences of re-infection have skyrocketed with Omicron). 
Apparently Kelly Ripa and even Bill Gates announced positive tests as well -
Link to tweet
@BillGates
I've tested positive for COVID. I'm experiencing mild symptoms and am following the experts' advice by isolating until I'm healthy again.
5:41 PM · May 10, 2022
Apparently the transmission rate appears to be increasing quite a bit now since all these "events" are happening as people assume "the worst is over" but COVID-19 has other ideas. I know the cases here in Philly suddenly started accelerating the past couple weeks after the media shamed the city into ditching mask mitigation.
They're calling it a relapse and I hope that's all it is - at first he was only off Monday and Tuesday, now it's Wednesday, too - if he's really sick he should take the whole week. And last week his band leader, Jon Batiste, was out with Covid and missed an award show where he was supposed to be honored - and Jimmy Kimmel (who is on the West Coast) was out with Covid last week, too, they had a guest host. 
Someone had mentioned to me that New York State was experiencing a surge, so I looked that up, too, and it turns out that my area of New York, the Northeast, was the experiencing the most cases in the entire country. Saratoga County, which is just south of where I am (20 minutes - and where I grew up) has the most. And now it's spread to New York City - again.
I also read that precautions - masks and distancing - really should be reinstated in these parts. But they've reinstated them and rescinded them enough already and people would likely rebel - though I do see some people still wearing masks in public.
Like you said, people are convinced "it's over," but nothing could be further from the truth. I know two people - fully vaxxed - who have it for the first time and my friend who's also on DU has been pretty sick even though she got the pills. And I've had the flu, not Covid, tested negative for that, but am still feeling pretty tired and congested even though I got sick and was diagnosed April 9th - and got the prescription for Tamiflu.
Upstate New York COVID-19 rates continue to lead nation - Albany Times Union (April 30th)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/106827278
NYC raises COVID-19 risk alert level - ABC News (May 2nd)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/106827287
is that there has been some suggestion that since the worst of it was initially right along the Canadian border, that it may have been some kind of Canadian/U.S. cross-border spread. And with PA bordering south central and southwestern NY, those northern PA counties right along the border have also seen higher rates than the rest of PA. Granted, those counties up there are sparsely populated but that makes it even more significant when you have that relative high number of cases among a rural population.
I just looked at the Philly Inquirer front page this morning and there was an article with a somewhat semi-mea culpa headline of -
Philly’s COVID cases are up since the mask mandate ended. Did the city make the right call?
after they went horribly viral by shaming us for instituting mitigation. They refuse to accept simple "common sense" that if you reduce the spread, you reduce the opportunity of the virus to mutate, knowing that this IS a virus that loves to mutate and has a history of doing so.
And *finally*, after dancing around the issue and obvious circumstances, I heard a tentative report just last night, that they are maybe, possibly, looking at a COVID-19 link to the sudden Hepatitis outbreak in young children. And I just found this -
Childhood mystery hepatitis linked to COVID?
Liz Braun
May 10, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 2 minute read •
Toronto joins the list of cities around the world currently reporting mysterious cases of hepatitis in children. Seven cases of severe acute hepatitis — cause unknown — were reported by Sick Children’s Hospital on May 9; they were diagnosed between October 2021 and April of this year. This month, some 20 countries have reported more than 350 cases of pediatric hepatitis of unknown origin.
Children have died (five in the U.S., according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ) at least 18 needed liver transplants.The U.K. has seen more than 160 cases. The WHO reported that there are cases as well in India, Israel, South East Asia, Ireland, Holland and several other European countries. There are reports of a significant increase in these cases, and the severity of the liver inflammation has also been noted.
Whether the cases in Toronto are occurring in unusually high numbers is not known. According to a statement from the hospital: “It remains to be seen whether this number represents an increase in cases of unknown origin compared to similar time periods in previous years, or if any of these cases will be confirmed to be caused by a novel clinical entity.”
The cases are not linked to hepatitis viruses or to any other usual causes. Researchers are looking at evidence that links the liver inflammation to adenovirus infections — colds, flu and other common ailments — and to COVID-19, or a combination of both. There is a growing body of evidence that this hepatitis in children may be a post-viral (i.e., post-COVID) issue. According to the WHO, the majority of cases it reviewed are in children who are not vaccinated.
https://torontosun.com/news/national/childhood-mystery-hepatitis-linked-to-covid
I mean come on! Moderate to severe COVID-19 causes inflammation that can happen all over the body depending on where it lands. For children, the initial discovery of this happening to some of them manifested into what was called "MIS-C" (Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children). Hepatitis is what? Inflammation of the liver and the liver is one of the organs where there are ACE2 receptors that COVID-19 can attach to. There have also been instances being found where people who had previously dormant viruses (and they were in remission), have suddenly found them reanimated by a COVID-19 infection - even if a so-called "minor" one (e.g., shingles). This bizarre uptick of Hepatitis took place during the peak of Omicron in countries around the world and mostly with the age group of children who were either not eligible or had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
