Links for you. Science:

The New Normal: Delayed Peak SARS-CoV-2 Viral Loads Relative to Symptom Onset and Implications for COVID-19 Testing Programs
Effects of BNT162b2 Messenger RNA Vaccine and ChAdOx1 Adenovirus Vector Vaccine on Deaths From COVID-19 in Adults Aged ≥70 Years
Meet one of NYC’s largest new residents: The fin whale
Paleontologists discover a 240-million-year-old ‘dragon’ fossil in full
Ebola vaccine cuts fatality even in people who were infected before the jab, new study shows
Strange wall of stones found beneath Baltic Sea may have helped humans hunt reindeer: “Sensational” find shows people built structure 8500 years ago to herd animals to their death

Other:

Florida’s Public Health Function Has Gone to the Zoo. While Ron DeSantis was wandering around Iowa, diseases like measles and syphilis have been surging in his state.
Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men
Haley’s nearly all-White high school lacked lessons of racism, some say
Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war
Sinclair’s recipe for TV news: Crime, homelessness, illegal drugs
Parents of ‘2119’ Nazi teens haunted by fear and regret
Embryos are vessels of hope, pain and love. But they are not children.
Turns Out It’s Really Useful to Have a Former Public Defender on the Supreme Court
Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort
Metrorail capital expansion: The transit future we need and deserve
Will Voters in San Francisco Go for a Different Kind of Mayor?
Now that the news is out that DCist is dead and 15 great people will lose their jobs, some truths. (from Xitter)
DCist Will Be Shut Down Again, This Time by WAMU
Folks
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
The Answers Issue 2024: In which City Paper staffers provide answers to your random questions about life in D.C.
No Vaccine? No Problem! Florida Wants Your Unvaccinated Kids in School During a Measles Outbreak
Things Are Forever On The Internet
NBC Nightly News interviewed a CPAC attendee. There was no mention that she is a convicted January 6 rioter who threatened to murder Nancy Pelosi.
And Why Did She Think That
A New Orleans magician says a Democratic operative paid him to make the fake Biden robocall: Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign denounced the alleged actions of one of its consultants and said it may take legal action against him.
Dog Ran Over By Car That It Just Caught
Bonsall woman is suspected mastermind of $8M retail theft ring that hit 200+ Ulta stores (oddly enough, she’s not the kind of person the media would have you believe she’s supposed to be…)
Potential Criminal Activity Revealed in the Kroger-Albertsons Merger
A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Putin—and a World in Danger