Monthly Archives: April 2022

Links 4/25/22

Posted on April 25, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Our Experience with Paxlovid: A seemingly rapid response, but admittedly an N of 1 Finland Is On The Brink Of A Nuclear Power ‘Game Changer’ Yet another pseudoscientific fraud Covid vaccines are safe and highly effective. … Continue reading →

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A Brief Personal Thought on Long COVID

Posted on April 25, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Regular readers will note that last week was the first time in a long, long time I haven’t posted regularly. As I mentioned last week, I came down with a really nasty virus (not influenza or COVID-19) last Friday, and … Continue reading →

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Links 4/24/22

Posted on April 24, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Durability of BNT162b2 vaccine against hospital and emergency department admissions due to the omicron and delta variants in a large health system in the USA: a test-negative case–control study Washington’s elite turned the Gridiron dinner into … Continue reading →

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Our Town?

Posted on April 24, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed at the corner of 19th and S Streets NW, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Links 4/23/22

Posted on April 23, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Canada ignored warnings of virus infecting farmed and wild salmon With chicken eggs and household supplies, undergraduates blaze a path toward low-cost antiviral Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination The CDC is … Continue reading →

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Links 4/22/22

Posted on April 22, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Amazon Rainforest Can’t Survive 4 More Years Of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro ‘America’s Amazon’ Is in Alabama. It’s Just One Ecosystem Suffering Because Our Rivers Are in Decline. Enough About Climate Change. Air Pollution Is Killing … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID-19 in D.C.: Maybe a Leveling Off, and Some DCPS Data

Posted on April 22, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Maybe things are plateauing: Of course, without knowing percent positive rates and so on, we don’t really know what’s happening. Still, it’s better than another doubling, though 31 daily new positives/100,000 residents is very high from a transmission perspective. On … Continue reading →

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Links 4/21/22

Posted on April 21, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The case for testing Pfizer’s Paxlovid for treating long COVID We Might Be Looking At COVID “Seasons” For Years To Come U.S. early warning system aims to track emerging health threats Time to re-think the divide … Continue reading →

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Programming Note

Posted on April 20, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

I hope to be back to blogging tomorrow, but I have–hopefully, had, in terms of ongoing symptoms–a weird viral infection this week that just really messed me up. Anyway, it wasn’t COVID.

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Links 4/17/22

Posted on April 17, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard Autopsies suggest COVID’s smell loss is caused by inflammation, not virus The secrets hidden in sewage. Wastewater can help us monitor Covid-19. What else can it tell us? … Continue reading →

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