3-2-22 First time eating at a restaurant since July 2021 - felt kind of wierd.

3-2-22 The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol said that Trump and his associates engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College.

3-9-22 First day back to the gym since 7-28-21.

3-11-22 President Joe Biden on Friday said the U.S. would join the European Union and G7 allies to strip Russia of its preferential trade status and impose a series of new penalties in the latest effort to punish Moscow for its ongoing assault on Ukraine. He said the G7 would also seek to deny Russia the ability to borrow from leading multinational institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This decision will require approval from Congress.

3-16-22 COVID cases are climbing in the United Kingdom — up 48% in the last week, likely due the BA.2 subvariant of omicron, which is even more transmissible; the removal of pandemic mitigation efforts like mask mandates; and waning immunity from vaccination or prior infection. The U.S. generally lags Europe by two weeks. The U.S. is also starting to see an increase of COVID-19 in wastewater samples, a strong early predictor of when the virus is about to spike. Between Feb. 24 and March 10, the presence of COVID-19 increased by 100% or more in 37% of U.S. wastewater sites.

3-16-22 -An estimated 45% of the US has had omicron recently. That should be highly protective. Those fully vaccinated but who haven’t had omicron should be vulnerable to infection from BA2, but largely won’t be hospitalized or worse.

3-17-22 In the CDC's Region 2 — New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — 39% of COVID cases are the BA.2 strain, compared to the U.S. average of 23.1%.

3-29-22 The FDA authorizes a second booster for all adults 50 and older to be given at least four months after the first booster.

3-29-22 In the swath of the Northeast that includes Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine, BA.2 now accounts for more than 70% of all new cases. That’s up from just over 50% the week before and 38% the week before that.

3-31-22 Health experts argue that there won’t be a significant spike in cases amid the steady rise of the Omicron BA.2 subvariant, mostly due to the fact that a majority of Americans have been exposed to some level of COVID-19 antibodies, either from vaccination or infection. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of blood donor samples dating back to December found that 95 percent of Americans 16 and older had some exposure to COVID antibodies, a majority of which came from vaccinations.