Monthly Archives: April 2020

Links 4/25/20

Posted on April 25, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies, critics say How does coronavirus kill? … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on April 25, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist links: Sign(s) of the Times Why Did Pelosi Appoint Shalala as a Watchdog? People Are Going to Die Because Professional Democrats Suck at Performative Politics We Are Not Ready to Reopen: The Pulse Oximeter Edition … Continue reading →

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Links 4/24/20

Posted on April 24, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere. Coronavirus Vaccine Prospects (also see this) Superfund, Meet Super Plants The Mysterious Demise of Freshwater Mussels Has mystery of why benzene forms … Continue reading →

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Safety, COVID-19, and Republicans

Posted on April 24, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Oh my? Just to follow up on a footnote from Wednesday’s post, it’s pretty clear that many Republicans (#NotAll…) want to restart businesses at the expense of the health and lives of workers. This should surprise no one. For four … Continue reading →

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Links 4/23/20

Posted on April 23, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus? Important decisions about this question are being made, as they must be, based on only glimmers of data. John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician A taxonomic note on … Continue reading →

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Bayes Theorem, COVID-19, and False Positives

Posted on April 23, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

During the last week, there has been an upswing in discussions of Bayes Theorem regarding serotype testing for COVID-19. We’ll get to Bayes in a bit, but first, serological testing. Serological testing has the potential to identify who has been … Continue reading →

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Links 4/22/20

Posted on April 22, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Fairy Rings Bring Life—And Death—To Ecosystems Triplex Real-Time RT-PCR for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Evolutionary trees can’t reveal speciation and extinction rates Bats are a key source of human viruses — but they’re not … Continue reading →

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We Are Not Ready to Reopen: The Pulse Oximeter Edition

Posted on April 22, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

While there has been–correctly–a lot of attention paid to the inadequate supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical personnel, if we’re serious about reopening the country safely*, we need to massively increase our supply of non-medical PPE and related … Continue reading →

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Links 4/21/20

Posted on April 21, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Corruption of NIH Peer Review (must-read) John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, has died of COVID-19. After 50 years, people are still discovering interesting Game of Life patterns. Strange Forest Patches Littering The Amazon … Continue reading →

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People Are Going to Die Because Professional Democrats Suck at Performative Politics

Posted on April 21, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, there were five astroturf demonstrations in the U.S., calling for removal of COVID-19 based physical distancing measures. As you might imagine, our national political press corps provided important context and made it clear that these dingbats represent … Continue reading →

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