Daily Digest 1/24 – Rate Hikes; 35,000 March on DC; Vax Trials Adverse Events; Home Schooling Here to Stay for Many

Economy

Mortgage Rates Spikes Blamed by Borrowers on Inflation
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate has gone up abruptly in January on concerns that the Federal Reserve could end up raising rates up to four times in 2022, instead of maybe two or three times.

Health

Up to 35,000 March on Washington to Defeat the Mandates
The “Defeat the Mandates” march took to the streets and monuments of Washington, D.C., as protestors and speakers called for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates nationwide.

 

CDC May Be Changing the Definition of Fully Vaccinated, Again
If you haven’t gotten your booster shot yet, you may no longer be considered fully vaccinated as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to “pivot the language.”

 

Omicron might be the worst Covid gets when it comes to transmissibility: experts
It’s too soon to know if Covid’s omicron variant will hasten the end of the nearly two-year-long Covid-19 pandemic. But some experts say that when it comes to contagiousness, omicron could be the “most transmissible the virus can get.”

 

Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Significantly more AEs were reported in the vaccine groups, but AEs in placebo arms (“nocebo responses”) accounted for 76% of systemic AEs after the first COVID-19 vaccine dose and 52% after the second dose.

Resilience

The pandemic pushed more families to home-school. Many are sticking with it
During the pandemic, a growing number of families have chosen to home school their children, with an especially large increase in the number of Black home schoolers.

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