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A Side Benefit of Reasonable Anti-COVID Precautions

A few weeks ago, some asshole with a blog discussed how masking at meetings can prevent disease transmission: I also was at an in-person conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, and by the last couple of hours or so on Wednesday, … Continue reading

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Sunday Sermon: Are American Jews Caught in a Tide of Anti-Semitism?

So asks Josh Marshall. As the kids used to say, read the whole thing.

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Links 10/21/23

Links for you. Science: Flu And RSV Could Be On The Rise Nationwide: The CDC reported that cases are still low, but the viruses will likely spread. Codagenix announces promising findings for intranasal COVID vaccine Researchers record groundbreaking video of … Continue reading

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Links 10/8/23

Links for you. Science: Ten simple rules for interpreting and evaluating a meta-analysis New Drug May Slow Evolution Of Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria These Baby Beetle Backpacks Are Made Of Poop The high-tech hunt for one of the world’s most … Continue reading

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Links 9/26/23

Links for you. Science: Many people hate wasps, but research shows they’re smarter than you might think and ecologically important One Health Approach to Globalizing, Accelerating, and Focusing Amphibian and Reptile Disease Research—Reflections and Opinions from the First Global Amphibian … Continue reading

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Links 9/19/23

Links for you. Science: COVID-19: A New Disease Paradigm. What if SARS-CoV-2 continues to infect us even after the initial symptoms fade? (this should be viewed as a hypothesis to be tested, not as a well-substantiated explanation; there are a … Continue reading

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Not Quite the Data I Had Hoped for: COVID in D.C.

Last week, we had some encouraging COVID wastewater concentration data for D.C. and neighboring Alexandria, VA. A large decline from the week prior, and an end to many weeks of 10-35% weekly increases. Which is good! That said, I noted: … Continue reading

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Links 8/31/23

Links for you. Science: Late at night on a deserted beach, she found a 15 million-year-old fossil What’s with all the mushrooms? What to know about the fungi flourishing this summer. How to find extended-spectrum beta-lactamase genes? We are not … Continue reading

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Links 7/17/23

Links for you. Science: Undue publicity for flawed fraud detector The Drowning of Doggerland The Great American Shark Slaughter Zoo outbreak highlights human-to-animal COVID-19 risk The distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes across phylogroup, host species and geography in 16,000 publicly-available … Continue reading

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Links 6/21/23

Links for you. Science: A retraction long overdue This man created our best chance of stopping the next pandemic but now he is under attack. Why? A database holding the genetic codes to the world’s most deadly viruses has fallen … Continue reading

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