Monthly Archives: December 2020

They Just Don’t Understand

Posted on December 22, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, the Washington Post ran a tour de force piece about all of the Trump Administration’s failures in combating COVID-19. It alternates between infuriating and saddening. There isn’t that much that’s new, but when you see it all … Continue reading →

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Links 12/21/20

Posted on December 21, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Three-quarters attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in the Brazilian Amazon during a largely unmitigated epidemic Why An ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Approach Is Needed For Climate Change Healthcare workers caught COVID-19 in Victoria in their thousands, so what … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID-19 in D.C.: A Sort-of Shutdown

Posted on December 21, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Well, the inevitable happened, but I’m getting ahead of myself. D.C. continued to level off this week, and the deaths, while entirely predictable, were horrifyingly high. The 22 deaths over the last week should be put in context of the … Continue reading →

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Links 12/20/20

Posted on December 20, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

] Links for you. Science: People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong. ‘Like a Hand Grasping’: Trump Appointees Describe the Crushing of the C.D.C. How Effective Is the Mask You’re Wearing? You May Know Soon … Continue reading →

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Scratch

Posted on December 20, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on 18th Street NW, between T and Swann, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Links 12/19/20

Posted on December 19, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen On the road to herd immunity, vaccination speeds the journey D.C. Will Study Its Sewage To Find Clues Of COVID-19 Hotspots Temporal Shifts in Antibiotic Resistance Elements … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on December 19, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist links: Hanukah on 16th The State of COVID-19 in D.C.: Another Awful Week You Can’t Hoodwink the Virus: The No-Bar Edition D.C. Needs a Happy COVID-19 Dashboard D.C. Gets Screwed on Vaccine Distribution Under- and … Continue reading →

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Links 12/18/20

Posted on December 18, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Moderna Vaccine Is Highly Protective and Prevents Severe Covid-19, Data Show Removal of rare amplicon sequence variants from 16S rRNA gene sequence surveys biases the interpretation of community structure data MRSA emerges through natural transformation We … Continue reading →

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Under- and Overrepresentation

Posted on December 18, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the minor annoyances of the last four years (because we’ve had some very big annoyances recently) is the idea that Trump Changed Everything, when many of the same patterns just continued onward. As some asshole with a blog … Continue reading →

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Links 12/17/20

Posted on December 17, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem? Antibiotic overuse on kids may make such drugs useless against superbugs Comparing bad apples to orange soda: Flaws and Errors in an Estimation of Years of Life Lost … Continue reading →

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