Active Rigs At 47 -- March 27, 2023

Cheers: of all the sitcoms over the years, the best, without question, "Cheers."

Covid: very, very interesting. It's called attenuation. And vaccinators use the concept all the time. Link here. 

It's called attenuation, and in this case, "nature" is doing it. Not scientists.

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled across the United Kingdom, hematologist John Willan has worried about the disease’s toll on his patients. In March 2020, Willan, who works at the University of Oxford and Wexham Park Hospital, began to track the hospital’s COVID-19 cases among people with leukemias, lymphomas, and other blood diseases. He counted not just the dozens of deaths, but also persistent and disabling symptoms collectively called Long Covid, which have plagued millions over the past 3 years.

These days, Willan is less anxious.

After Omicron began spreading in late 2021, COVID-19 deaths became a rarity even among his frail and immunocompromised patients, he says.

And infections now carry a lower threat of lingering complications. “These patients with Omicron, they’re much less likely to get Long Covid,” says Willan, whose patients are overwhelmingly vaccinated.

Earlier this month, he reported in the British Journal of Haematology that his patients’ risk of Long Covid symptoms 3 months after infection had dropped from 46% with the original coronavirus strain and another called Alpha, to 35% with the Delta variant, to 14% with Omicron.

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs: 47. (wow)

WTI: up 5.13%; trading at $72.81, up $3.55.

Natural gas: $2.088.

Three new permits, #39754 - #39756, inclusive:

• Operator: Grayson Mill
• Field: Round Prairie (Williams)
• Comments:
• Grayson Mill has permits for three Cuda wells, SESE 11-154-104, 
• to be sited 398 FSL and between 550 FEL and 610 FEL, Round Prairie oil field.

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 37012, 619, CLR, LCU Ralph Federal 5-27H1,