Links for you. Science:

Who Gets Sick From COVID-19? Sociodemographic Correlates of Severe Adult Health Outcomes During Alpha- and Delta-Variant Predominant Periods: September 2020–November 2021
A review on Zika vaccine development
How a Tardigrade “Micro Animal” Became Quantum Entangled with Superconducting Qubit
Beyond breathing: How COVID-19 affects your heart, brain and other organs
Macrophage-induced reduction of bacteriophage density limits the efficacy of in vivo pulmonary phage therapy
UCSD Study Finds Masking, Proper Ventilation Helped Prevent COVID-19 Cases (paper here)

Other:

Republicans again ask the Supreme Court to do their dirty work: The constitution says Congress can restore an insurrectionist to the ballot. Congressional Republicans want the Supreme Court to do it for them.
Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks
Senator Tammy Baldwin’s Chief to Long COVID Patients: Stop Annoying Me or Else
California health officials shorten COVID isolation period to 1 day (this is fucking stupid–note there is no mention whatsoever about long COVID outcomes)
Washington Gas Deploys a Mess of Lobbyists to Kill Legislation Promoting Electric Appliances. The utility is resorting to deceptive tactics to combat a bill helping low-income people ditch gas stoves.
A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?
Marco Rubio’s Trump endorsement was a profile in cowardice. And it wasn’t even the worst.
Tucker Carlson’s revealing, ignorant disparagement of the vice president: ‘Harris is a member of the new master race,’ he said on his social media show Tuesday
As folks freeze to death in Milwaukee, Ohio pastor charged for offering shelter
The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world’s computers
Partisans Are Politicizing Our Schools: A network of consultants, PACs, and political activists has quietly infiltrated school board elections (Republican partisans, actually)
Why Transit Reliability is Difficult in Midsized Cities
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Michigan’s $55M experiment with guaranteed income begins with Flint moms
How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism: The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.
The Ashes of the Phoenix: Saying Good-bye to a Boston Institution
Pouring One Out for Pitchfork – 9.2 Music Publication in a 3.7 Digital Media World
Nancy Mace’s ex-chief of staff weighs a primary challenge against her
How Boeing Ruined the JetBlue-Spirit Merger
Chevy Chase’s most divisive project advances: a new library with housing
It’s (Almost) Time To Say Goodbye To That Weird Gas Station Under a Rosslyn Church
Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI: A new super PAC tied to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Bill Ackman is backing Democratic challenger Dean Phillips (of course, this has nothing to do with Ackman’s motivations)
The Shape of Things to Come. The future is Trump. And Trump will continue to misunderestimate Joe Biden.
How racist was our country? Take a look at the numbers.
It’s Time for Former Trump Officials to Come Out Against Him
House Republicans try to blow up the border deal they claim to want