Thursday, July 30, 2020

How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair

And that is where the U.S. finds itself today—in a massive testing crisis. States have been forced to go their own way, amid rising case counts, skyrocketing demand for tests, and dwindling laboratory capacity. By mid-July, Quest Diagnostics announced that the average time to turn around test results was seven days.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air


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New Documentary “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind” Tells The Full Story Of The Songwriting Legend « American Songwriter

https://americansongwriter.com/new-documentary-gordon-lightfoot-if-you-could-read-my-mind-tells-the-full-story-of-the-songwriting-legend/


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The 8 Best Bob Dylan Documentaries | Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-8-best-bob-dylan-documentaries/


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Sunday, July 26, 2020

Traveling In An RV Is Way More Expensive Than You Probably Think



Traveling In An RV Is Way More Expensive Than You Probably Think
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rv-costs-expensive-travel_l_5f16259dc5b615860bb6384e

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Monday, July 20, 2020

RVing for the first time? 8 tips for newbies I wish I'd known during my first trip



RVing for the first time? 8 tips for newbies I wish I'd known during my first trip
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/advice/2020/07/20/planning-your-first-rv-vacation-here-8-tips-newbies/5418385002/

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical records to the isolation of Koch's bacillus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432783/


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The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical records to the isolation of Koch's bacillus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432783/


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Oxford’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is the Coronavirus Front-Runner - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/oxford-s-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner


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Leon J. Kamin (1927-2017): A Nemesis of Genetic Determinism and Scientific Racism - Mad In America

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/04/leon-j-kamin-nemesis-genetic-determinism/


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CNN Politics: UK, U.S. and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on COVID-19 research centers


UK, U.S. and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on COVID-19 research centers
Russian cyber actors are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, according to a new warning by US, UK and Canadian security officials on Thursday that details activity by a Russian hacking group called APT29, which also goes by the name "the Dukes" or "Cozy Bear."

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The 30 Best Country Albums of the 2010s - Paste

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/best-country-albums-2010s/


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Sunday, July 05, 2020

George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation (John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress)

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html


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Po-Shen Loh | Quadratic Method: Detailed Explanation

https://www.poshenloh.com/quadraticdetail/


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FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html


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Still Confused About Masks? Here’s the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus | UC San Francisco

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent?j=894&sfmc_sub=771245&l=237_HTML&u=26127&mid=514005876&jb=106


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Campbell Mesa Loop | Arizona Highways

https://www.arizonahighways.com/explore/hiking/campbell-mesa-loop


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How scientists know COVID-19 is way deadlier than the flu

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/coronavirus-deadlier-than-many-believed-infection-fatality-rate-cvd/


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Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem - Quillette

https://quillette.com/2020/07/03/racism-is-real-but-science-isnt-the-problem/


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Is Medicare Supplement Plan F Going Away?

https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/medicare/supplement-all/is-medicare-supplement-plan-f-going-away


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How An Ohio Black Lives Matter Protest Turned Ugly

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/bethel-ohio-black-lives-matter-protest


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Casual inference

https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1268/2020/02/ci_hernanrobins_21feb20.pdf





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Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles’ Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19 | NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2009758


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Tracking changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: evidence that D614G increases infectivity of the COVID-19 virus: Cell

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30820-5


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Friday, July 03, 2020

Convalescent Plasma COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Treatment – Mayo Clinic

https://www.uscovidplasma.org/


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Introduction to Immunoglobulins | Thermo Fisher Scientific - US

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/antibodies/antibodies-learning-center/antibodies-resource-library/antibody-methods/introduction-immunoglobulins.html


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Immunological memory - Immunobiology - NCBI Bookshelf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27158/


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Can Freestanding ERs Replace Rural America's Struggling Hospitals? It's Complicated | Side Effects

https://www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org/post/can-freestanding-ers-replace-rural-americas-struggling-hospitals-its-complicated


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Andrew Sullivan: China Is a Genocidal Menace

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-china-is-a-genocidal-menace.html


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SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Likely To Be Higher Than Antibody Testing Has Shown | Technology Networks

https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/news/sars-cov-2-immunity-likely-to-be-higher-than-antibody-testing-has-shown-336861


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Beach Reads. About Murder. At the Actual Beach. | CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/beach-reads-about-murder-at-the-actual-beach/


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Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2516


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Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020 | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2767980


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Using viral genomics to estimate undetected infections and extent of superspreading events for COVID-19 | medRxiv

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20092098v3


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History and the Supreme Court's June Medical Abortion Ruling | Time

https://time.com/5861196/june-medical-abortion-history/


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Exposures Before Issuance of Stay-at-Home Orders Among Persons with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — Colorado, March 2020 | MMWR

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6926e4.htm


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Masks references

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/368/6498/1422.full.pdf




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The Tricky Math of COVID-19 Herd Immunity | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-tricky-math-of-covid-19-herd-immunity-20200630/


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Sayeema N. Daudi, MD - ironwood-womens-centers

https://www.ironwoodwomenscenters.com/doctors/sayeema-n-daudi-md/


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Saturated Houston hospitals transferring COVID-19 patients to other cities - ABC13 Houston

https://abc13.com/covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-hospitals/6286076/


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Fast Company: How many COVID-19 infections are undetected? Studying its mutations may hold the answer


How many COVID-19 infections are undetected? Studying its mutations may hold the answer
As of the end of June, there were more than 10.4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide. The real number, of course, is much higher, though unknown, because of limited tests and because of how many people who are infected never have symptoms and so never think to get a test. At the nonprofit Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, researchers are using changes in the virus genome to estimate the number of undetected infections—and found that in some areas, more than 90% of cases weren't discovered.

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