Links for you. Science:
COVID vaccine boosters: the most important questions
Twelve-month systemic consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a prospective cohort study in Wuhan, China
Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Clones from Wild Chimpanzees and Termites in Senegal
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
Flora, Fauna, and … Funga? The Case for a Third ‘F.’
Other:
Republicans treated Covid like a bioweapon. Then it turned against them
Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing
The ‘Anonymous Sources’ Are Engaged in a Monumental Ass-Covering Campaign on Afghanistan
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Biden asks Americans to act like grown-ups — but Republicans are too addicted to being brats
Can Democrats turn Trump’s insurrection into a voting issue?
Most Americans support requiring masks in public places, yet few report experiencing actual employer or government mandates
She spread election conspiracies. It ruined her life. How one of Arizona’s top Stop the Steal activists came to believe the real conspiracy is to promote the hoax of election fraud
COVID Patients Fighting for Their Lives Are Still Refusing the Vaccine
The latest GOP anti-mask lunacy is stirring a backlash. New polling reveals it.
Pictures at a Restoration: On Pete Souza’s Obama
The Taliban seizure of Afghanistan was long — and invisible — in the making
D.C. Council Funds New Office for Deaf, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing
Go-Go Musicians Remember and Mourn Producer Chucky Thompson
The Well Fixer’s Warning: The lesson that California never learns
Biden (and Trump) did the right thing on Afghanistan
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut”
How CDC data problems put the U.S. behind on the delta variant: Critics say the CDC’s failure to share real-time data led to overly rosy assessments of vaccine effectiveness — and complacency on the part of many Americans
The GOP is losing the argument on coronavirus mandates
Parents worried about Covid in schools have an easy weapon at hand, experts say — fresh air
An Alabama doctor watched patients reject the coronavirus vaccine. Now he’s refusing to treat them.
The terror when you find out the medical personnel treating you is unvaccinated
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