#Spike

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Getting a lot of questions about vaccines and variants and why @moderna_tx is developing a booster based on variant discovered in South Africa if vaccines are thought to protect against

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

5/ The answer, it turned out was CO2. In 1908, Svante Arrhenius figured out that CO2 (and water vapor, and methane) acts like a blanket around the earth. But it's

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME & SERIOUS—You know how the world put travel bans against UK travel out of fear of the #B117 more contagious variant? Well, now, UK put travel ban from

Chjango Unchained ⛓

chjango

1/ W/o further ado, the @cosmos update for @OurNetwork__ that went missing in this wk's issue bc of technical difficulties a) a modified DeFi equivalents on Cosmos chartb) smart contracting

el gato malo

boriquagato

much has been made recently about the rise in reported covid deaths in the last few weeks.the question is: is it real?i normalized 3 series to april peak to make

Eztainutlacatl

cbkwgl

Let me run through the NGT report on Diwali. I am still scratching my head to understand on what scientific grounds the decision is made. The reading I am getting

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—analysis of Russian #SARSCoV2 vaccine’s phase 3 trial with ~ 20,000 participants finds that a 2-dose regimen has an efficacy of 91.6% against symptomatic #COVID19. No serious adverse events were

Drew Levin

drewlevin

Spent a bunch of time thinking about @Mythic_Society's set roulette because I enjoy weird formats. Not playing tomorrow, so here are my thoughts (threaded): 1. Flash isn't the best deck,

Old North State Politics

oldnorthstpol

1/Today's (8-7) report on NC's requests for absentee by mail (ABM) ballots:Total requests among reporting 95 (out of 100) counties: 144,475Up 6,505 over yesterdayThis same day in 2016's requests: 21,8732020

Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏

DrTELS

New spatial analysis of wildfires across the Arctic in May/June 2020, and how they compare to the satellite record (2003-2020). What is burning? Are there peat fires? What about permafrost?

Sandy Douglas

sandyddouglas

This issue is, appropriately, contentious. As a vaccinologist - & citizen & relative of people in at-risk groups - I fully support the UK decision to increase dose intervals of

eugyppius

eugyppius1

1. Just as the medical establishment has made us sicker, the press has made us vastly stupider about CoronaAnyone who ignores the news and judges solely on personal experience, will

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is exactly what many of us were predicting back in march.the knock on effects of lockdown are not just economic.it's going to kill more people than covid.this is an

ice9

__ice9

For reference, here is the recent report alleging a potentially artificial origin for SARS-CoV-2, from virologist Li-Meng Yan.https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_G1mhKg2zhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_YanYan recently fled Hong Kong

Alice Barsoumian, MD

AliceBarsoumian

Did you know I was reluctant to get vaccinated at first but changed my mind?A As an ID physician I was skeptical that making a #COVIDvaccine could be

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

SURGING #B117 WITHIN US—growing 7% per day, doubling every 9.8 days nationally, & expected to become dominant by March 23rd. It is surging fastest in Florida—doubling every 9.1 days. Scientists

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