By Miss Kubelik
The CDC has approved a second COVID booster shot for Americans who have, ahem, been around for a half-century or more. We cats have a question: Do we have to get nine second boosters? One for each life? Not sure who in the Biden Administration can tell us, but maybe we'll send a DM to Willow. (By the way, she is one pretty cat.)
Meanwhile, big news on the health front. If you're an admirer of former President Jimmy Carter as we are, you probably know that one of the main goals of The Carter Center is to eradicate the dreaded guinea worm. Take it from us, you don't want the gory details of this disease. Suffice to say that it's awful, and when Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter took it on back in 1986, there were 3.5 million people a year, in 21 countries in Africa and Asia, who were suffering from it. Ugh.
Now, however, it's just been announced: Incidence of guinea worm has dropped more than 99.99 percent, to 14 cases in 2021. Fourteen!
President Carter has often said he wants to see the last guinea worm die before he does. Thanks to the efforts of the center that bears his name, at 97, he's giving the worm a run for its money. We hope Carter hangs on to age 100 and beyond — but we're betting he'll get his guinea worm wish soon. We cats PURR.
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