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COVID-19 ESSENTIALS

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deseret.com

An omicron variant infection creates limited immunity for unvaccinated, study finds

2 min read · Apr 20th · An omicron variant infection might not protect unvaccinated people against future COVID-19 variants
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nature

Four lessons from the pandemic to reboot the NIH

7 min read · Apr 21st · From innovation to workforce diversity, scientists are eager for change at the world’s largest funder of biomedical research.
Reader View · Shared by 8, including Holden Thorp, Science EIC, Rick Powell
New York Magazine

What a Single Metric Tells Us About the Pandemic

10 min read · Mar 26th · Excess mortality and COVID.
Reader View · Shared by 86, including Bill Hanage, David Wallace-Wells, BenYT
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If you had to pick a single metric by which to measure the ultimate impact of the pandemic, excess mortality is as good as we’re probably going to get.
The Atlantic

The Pandemic After the Pandemic

9 min read · Mar 11th · Long COVID isn’t going away, and we still do not have a way to fully prevent it, cure it, or really to quantify it.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 114, including Taylor Lorenz, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, David Fisman, Amesh Adalja, Dr. Syra Madad, Kristy Tillman 🎈, Rick Powell
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Science Magazine

Studying—and fighting—misinformation should be a top scientific priority, biologist argues

~13 min read · Mar 23rd · Carl Bergstom looks at “bullshit” on social media through an evolutionary lens
Reader View · Shared by 84, including Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Mathew Ingram, Carl T. Bergstrom, Carlos del Rio, Jon Cohen, Kai Kupferschmidt, News from Science, Martin Enserink, Roger Highfield, Reto Knutti
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Brandolini’s law, which says “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it.”
UnHerd

Is the media still stifling the lab-leak theory?

6 min read · Mar 8th · Science writers have become useful idiots
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 117, including Matt Ridley, Claudia Sommer, Rick Powell
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letsknowthings.com

Endemic COVID

~12 min read · Feb 16th · This week we talk about smallpox, the flu, and pan-coronavirus vaccines.We also discuss lockdowns, mask mandates, and pandemic trends.StreamSubscribeApple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Spotify /…
Reader View · Shared by 83, including Rick Powell
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MIT Technology Review

Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy

2 min read · Feb 9th · Shi Zhengli has spent years at the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching coronaviruses that live in bats. Her work has come under fire as the world tries to understand where covid-19 came from.
Reader View · Shared by 179, including Kaspar Manz, Christopher Lauer, Christian Drosten, Jon Cohen, Polina, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Tactical Tech, Claus Heller 🇺🇦, Matt Ridley, Rick Powell, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
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WIRED

The Physics of the N95 Face Mask

9 min read · Jan 28th · You’ve seen them a million times. You might be wearing one right now. But how do they work to block a potentially virus-carrying respiratory blob?
Shared by 85, including Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Tactical Tech, Jennifer Ouellette, Rick Powell
physics
Los Angeles Times

Protection offered by booster shot beats 'natural immunity,' study suggests

4 min read · 2021-11-27 · In people who got a booster shot, levels of neutralizing antibodies exceeded the peak that followed two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Reader View · Shared by 24, including Rick Powell, Deborah Blum, Katharina Borchert, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD
nature

Do vaccines protect against long COVID? What the data say

9 min read · 2021-11-23 · Vaccines reduce the risk of developing COVID-19 — but studies disagree on their protective effect against long COVID.
Reader View · Shared by 71, including Taylor Lorenz, Carly, Kyle McDonald, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, Rachel Thomas, Dr. Tara C. Smith, Marc Brupbacher, Jenn Dowd, Rick Powell, Roger Highfield, Eric Topol
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nature

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

3 min read · 2021-11-25 · Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.
Reader View · Shared by 142, including Rick Powell, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Atul Gawande, Eric Topol, Carla Gentry, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Karen K. Ho, Fabio Chiusi, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Carly, Marcel Janus, Constantin Gurdgiev, Paul O'Brien
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The variant harbours a high number of mutations in regions of the spike protein that antibodies recognize, potentially dampening their potency.
Guardian US

Seven anti-vaccine doctors contract Covid after Florida summit

2 min read · 2021-11-23 · Doctors tested positive or developed symptoms ‘within days’ of conference at which alternative treatments were discussed
Reader View · Shared by 75, including Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Rick Powell, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Steve Faulkner, David Frum, Carly, William Gibson, Merkstatt
The Atlantic

‘I Think I’m Done’

~13 min read · 2021-11-16 · About one in five health-care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
Reader View · Shared by 344, including Carlos del Rio, Amesh Adalja, Craig Spencer MD MPH, Tsion Firew, MD, MPH, William Gibson, Helen Branswell 🇺🇦, Gerd Leonhard, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Martin Fowler, Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻, Daniel Kraft, MD, Timothy Lomauro, Scott Santens, PhilanTopic, Mar Hicks, Bob Wachter, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Virginia Hughes, Ed Yong
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anyone I know who’s working in COVID has zero compassion remaining, especially for people who chose not to get the vaccine.
The Atlantic

Getting Back to Normal Is Only Possible Until You Test Positive

9 min read · 2021-11-09 · I was ultracareful for 18 months. Then I got COVID.
Reader View · Shared by 201, including Arin Basu, Felix M, Michael Barbaro, Marsha Collier, Rick Powell, Carly, David Wallace-Wells, James Fallows, Marie-José Kolly, slumos, Nils Hitze, Tactical Tech, Claire Cain Miller, Alexis C. Madrigal, Otti
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The Atlantic

America Has Lost the Plot on COVID

8 min read · 2021-11-01 · We’re avoiding the hardest questions about living with the coronavirus long term.
Reader View · Shared by 107, including Oliver Fuchs, Gregg Gonsalves, Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, David Leonhardt, Alexis C. Madrigal, ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟🧻🧙‍♂️, Marsha Collier, Olga Khazan, Monica Gandhi MD, MPH, Mathew Ingram, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell, DHH, George M 🇪🇺, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, David Wallace-Wells
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