Links for you. Science:

Explanations for ‘long Covid’ remain elusive. For now, believing patients and treating symptoms is the best doctors can do
COVID genomics on the Isle of Man: the history
South Asian, Chinese New Yorkers among the hardest hit by Covid, study shows. The research shows the importance of disaggregating data for Asian American patients — and the need to do more, advocates say.
MSG Isn’t Bad For You, According to Science
Implications of Shortened Quarantine Among Household Contacts of Index Patients with Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020

Other:

Was the College Football Season Worth It? (“Yet in terms of the impact across the state, every Ohio State game might as well have been its own Thanksgiving, just with different catering.”)
Biden Pick for Labor Stalls at Boston Mayor, Californian Su
Does Jeffrey Zients Have the Private-Sector Experience We Want in Government? In an age of financialization and monopoly, ‘private-sector experience’ too often translates into those who successfully plunder for profit.
Ted Cruz’s Georgia Runoff Fundraising Is Actually Going to His Campaign. He’s Not Alone
Failures
OUT COME THE FREAKS
COVID Living Room Spread
Colorado GOP leader incites harassment against public health workers by publicizing their home addresses
As homeless shelters brace for funding cuts, LGBTQ youths take desperate measures to get by
Bernie Sanders Is Right, Larry Summers Is Wrong
Bitcoin is not a literal Ponzi scheme
Biden’s Team Tells Senate Democrats To Send Him Judicial Nominees ASAP
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Is Way Behind Schedule. Should We Worry? A lack of Trump administration planning has put the burden on underfunded, overwhelmed state and local officials
Proud Boys Say They’ll “Be Incognito” During January 6 Trump Rallies in DC
Tankies! Everything you didn’t want to know about the people who think communist empires are awesome
I never thought that America was perfect, etc., etc. But I was not REMOTELY prepared for the way in which we failed the test of COVID.
‘Covid, Covid, Covid’: In Trump’s Final Chapter, a Failure to Rise to the Moment
A Disaster 100 Years in the Making
Meet the Trump saboteur in charge of undermining Biden — and America
Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery
As a doctor in the Covid-19 era, I’ve learned that judging patients’ decisions comes easier than it should