The New York Times
Opinion | Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
18+ min · · The importance of airborne transmission in the pandemic was clear long before the World Health Organization finally began to acknowledge it. · Shared by 552, including Marc Brupbacher, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Paul Graham, Eric Topol, David Wallace-Wells, Stowe Boyd, Edward Tufte, Marc Abrahams, David CisMan, Denis Nash, Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🤹🦟🧀, Prof Steve Keen, zeynep tufekci, Deborah Blum, Justin Wolfers, Michael Mina, Martin Varsavsky, Matthew Herper, Mathew Ingram, Abraar Karan
nature
Pandemic investigation: how the world failed to curb COVID
4 min · · First high-level report cites a communication breakdown between the World Health Organization, national leaders and the public. · Shared by 58, including George J Huba PhD, Eric Topol, Carly, Roger Highfield, Larry Brilliant 💛💙, Rick Powell
The New York Times
As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted
8 min · · Fatalities have been overlooked or downplayed, understating the human toll of the country’s outbreak, which accounts for nearly half of all new cases in a global surge. · Shared by 130, including Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, Ben Jones, Arin Basu, Jonathan Eisen, Klaus Eck, Akshat Rathi, Steve Hanke, Dr. Manu Kumar, Dr. Syra Madad, George J Huba PhD, Philanthropy News Digest, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Kainaz Amaria, Rick Powell, Mathieu von Rohr, Prof Steve Keen, August is National Water Quality Month, Brian Stelter
youtube.com
Krystal Ball: Bill Gates Is LYING TO YOU On Vaccine Patent Protection
· Krystal Ball details how Bill Gates' solution to poor nation vaccine distribution protects Pharma profits.About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with... · Shared by 11, including Rick Powell, Steve Faktor
Andrew Sullivan
Are Face-Masks The New Condoms?
11+ min · · Some thoughts on plagues, rationality and recovery. · Shared by 6
The Independent
Letters: I’m in India and never thought we’d see death on this scale here
2 min · · Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk · Shared by 10, including Howard Getson, Rick Powell
nature
India’s massive COVID surge puzzles scientists
4 min · · The virus is spreading faster than ever before in India despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection. · Shared by 107, including Rick Powell, Carl Zimmer, Deborah Blum, Roger Highfield
nature
How COVID hurt the fight against other dangerous diseases
11+ min · · Campaigns to battle tuberculosis, measles and polio have all been set back. · Shared by 22, including Rick Powell, Roger Highfield, ♕Deborah Mayo♕, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI
BBC News (World)
Covid: The countries that nailed it, and what we can learn from them
8 min · · A year into the pandemic, we look at countries that have had some success in tackling the virus. · Shared by 22, including Carlos del Rio, Rick Powell
nature
Pandemic whistleblower: we need a non-political way to track viruses
5 min · · Rick Bright exposed former president Donald Trump's political meddling. Now he's spearheading a private sector initiative to rapidly contain coronavirus variants and other outbreaks. · Shared by 13, including Rick Powell, Dr. Saskia Popescu
nature
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible
9 min · · Even with vaccination efforts in full force, the theoretical threshold for vanquishing COVID-19 looks to be out of reach. · Shared by 57, including keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Eric Topol, Charles Arthur, Roger Highfield, Michael Robinson, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🤹🦟🧀, Rick Powell, Prof Steve Keen, Alice Wong 王美華, Dr. Saskia Popescu
NBC News
Why do some Covid-19 patients have symptoms long after the virus goes away? NIH aims to find out.
1 min · · The National Institutes of Health has allocated the first funds of a billion-dollar initiative to figure out why some people aren't recovering from Covid-19. · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
nature
Where did COVID come from? Five mysteries that remain
5 min · · In the wake of the World Health Organization’s investigation, there are still key questions about when, where and how the pandemic began. · Shared by 41, including Rick Powell, Dr. Saskia Popescu
nature
Superspreading drives the COVID pandemic — and could help to tame it
10 min · · Uneven transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has had tragic consequences — but also offers clues for how best to target control measures. · Shared by 25, including Eric Topol, Arin Basu, Rick Powell, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Martin Steiger 🦈
nature
Why COVID vaccines are so difficult to compare
5 min · · Despite the widespread roll-out of several vaccines, it could be months before they can be ranked. · Shared by 21, including Carlos del Rio, Roger Highfield, Rick Powell, Eric Topol
The New York Times
A Grim Measure of Covid’s Toll: Life Expectancy Drops Sharply in U.S.
6 min · · American life expectancy fell by one year, to 77.8 years, in the first half of 2020. It may rebound as the pandemic’s end approaches. · Shared by 35, including David Wessel, Brian Stelter, Rick Powell, Dr. Syra Madad, uché blackstock, md, Utibe R. Essien, MD MPH, Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement.