Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm


_- Steve

Guest Post: On the intellectual dishonestly of recent hereditarian papers, Part One – Fardels Bear

https://altrightorigins.com/2020/06/28/intellectual-dishonestly-hereditarian-papers-1/


_- Steve

COVID-19 – deaths & excess deaths – Zoë Harcombe

https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2020/06/covid-19-deaths-excess-deaths/


_- Steve

Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01315-7


_- Steve

Opinion | What Coronavirus Herd Immunity Really Means - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-herd-immunity.html


_- Steve

How long does the coronavirus last inside the body?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/how-long-does-coronavirus-last-inside-the-body-cvd/


_- Steve

Coronavirus long-term effects: Some Covid-19 survivors face lung scarring, heart damage, and anxiety - Vox

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-effects-symptoms


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Coronavirus long-term effects: Some Covid-19 survivors face lung scarring, heart damage, and anxiety - Vox

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-effects-symptoms


_- Steve

The coronavirus 'long-haulers' show how little we still know | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/28/coronavirus-long-haulers-infectious-disease-testing


_- Steve

The West Is Being Won by Tiny Bits of Plastic - Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/microplastics-in-national-parks


_- Steve

LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in "Mass Gap" | www.caltech.edu

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ligo-virgo-finds-mystery-object-mass-gap?linkId=92132582


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Blog | Why Changing COVID-19 Demographics in the US Make Death Trends Harder to Understand | The COVID Tracking Project

https://covidtracking.com/blog/why-changing-covid-19-demographics-in-the-us-make-death-trends-harder-to


— Steve Smith

The Shape of Epidemics | Boston Review

http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/david-s-jones-stefan-helmreich-shape-epidemics


_- Steve

The evolution of the synapse

The question of how the communication systems of neurons, namely their neurotransmitter systems, first evolved has now also been largely answered. In a recent sweeping review for Current Biology, Detlev Arendt of Heidelberg, Germany, details the full genesis of the actual hardware of both the pre- and postsynapse. The paper lays down the order in which the canonical small molecule transmitter systems of life sequentially made their first appearance on the stage, and chronicles the novel deployment and proliferation of the associated structural matrix, scaffolding and adhesion molecules that made it all happen.

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-evolution-synapse.html

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Timothy Snyder - Our Malady -

https://www.timothysnyder.org/books/our-malady


_- Steve

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science

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


_- Steve

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review | The BMJ

Mask reduces risk to .3
https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3675


_- Steve

How Covid-19 can damage the brain - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19-infection


_- Steve

False positives in reverse transcription PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 | medRxiv

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v2


_- Steve

The Victory of ‘No’ - POLITICO Magazine

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/republican-party-obstructionism-victory-trump-214498


_- Steve

June 26: Tracking COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Fatalities – Tallahassee Reports

https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/06/24/two-charts-show-positive-trends-for-florida-in-coronavirus-battle/


_- Steve

Coronavirus death rate in US compared to flu death rate, by age - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-us-compared-to-flu-by-age-2020-6


_- Steve

11 places for thrifty bookworms to download free e-books

https://mashable.com/article/free-ebooks/


_- Steve

The Effect of Social Distancing Measures on Intensive Care Occupancy: Evidence on COVID-19 in Scandinavia

We estimate that in the counterfactual in which Denmark/Norway implemented Sweden's more lenient measures the number of hospitalizations would have peaked between around 15-20 days later. The peak number of hospitalizations in Denmark (Norway) would have been 133 (231) percent higher, and the peak number of ICU patients would have increased by 107 (140) percent.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/nhhfms/2020_002.html

_- Steve

Covid hosp by age group

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6915e3-H.pdf





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Most Common Diagnoses in Hospital Inpatient Stays - HCUP Fast Stats

https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/faststats/NationalDiagnosesServlet?year1=2017&characteristic1=0&included1=0&year2=&characteristic2=0&included2=1&expansionInfoState=hide&dataTablesState=hide&definitionsState=hide&exportState=hide


_- Steve

Best Netflix documentaries: from The 13th to Tiger King

https://www.shortlist.com/lists/best-netflix-documentaries-400115


_- Steve

Best crime dramas on Netflix: great detective series to watch

https://www.shortlist.com/lists/best-crime-dramas-to-binge-on-netflix-400061


_- Steve

Population Distribution by Citizenship Status | KFF

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-citizenship-status/


_- Steve

COVID-19 Is Far More Lethal Than Influenza - Gideon M-K; Health Nerd - Medium

https://medium.com/@gidmk/covid-19-is-far-more-lethal-than-influenza-69b6628e69f2


_- Steve

PCR rna

https://files.labcorp.com/labcorp-d8/2020-04/LabCorp-COVID-EUAsum3.pdf

FDA PCR test

https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download





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Study: Dominant form of virus ‘10 times’ more infectious than original strain | The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-dominant-form-of-virus-10-times-more-infectious-than-original-strain/


_- Steve

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3675

Meta-analysis of six case-control studies suggested that physical measures are highly effective in preventing the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome: handwashing more than 10 times daily (odds ratio 0.45, 95% confidence interval 0.36 to 0.57; number needed to treat=4, 95% confidence interval 3.65 to 5.52), wearing masks (0.32, 0.25 to 0.40; NNT=6, 4.54 to 8.03), wearing N95 masks (0.09, 0.03 to 0.30; NNT=3, 2.37 to 4.06), wearing gloves (0.43, 0.29 to 0.65; NNT=5, 4.15 to 15.41), wearing gowns (0.23, 0.14 to 0.37; NNT=5, 3.37 to 7.12), and handwashing, masks, gloves, and gowns combined (0.09, 0.02 to 0.35; NNT=3, 2.66 to 4.97). The combination was also effective in interrupting the spread of influenza within households. 

_- Steve 

The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cartoon-picture-of-magnets-that-has-transformed-science-20200624/


_- Steve

Three Recent Reversals Highlight the Challenges of COVID Science - The Bulwark

https://thebulwark.com/three-recent-reversals-highlight-the-challenges-of-covid-science/


_- Steve

What have been the fatal risks of Covid, particularly to children and younger adults?

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-have-been-the-fatal-risks-of-covid-particularly-to-children-and-younger-adults-a5cbf7060c49


_- Steve

I'm a viral immunologist. Here's what antibody tests for Covid-19 tell us | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

There are two major types of "memory" immune responses – changes to the body that mean you are able to recall a previous threat in order to mount a rapid protective response on reinfection. The first is driven by B cells, which produce antibodies. Vaccine research aims to generate potent, long-lasting antibodies that can protect us for life, but this is not always achieved. When antibodies wane, booster vaccinations can help. When viruses evolve to escape detection, like the fast-mutating flu, a newly designed vaccine is needed to stop them in their tracks.

The second cell type able to remember an infection is the T cell. T cells may be sufficient to control infection in the absence of antibodies, and act by organising immune defences (so-called "helper" T cells) or directly killing infected cells to restrict new virus production (cytotoxic T cells). T cell responses have been detected in most Covid-19 patients, and first-in-human vaccine trials have reported potent T cell activation. It is possible that T cells' memory of Sars-CoV-2 may last longer than antibodies, as is the case in other coronaviruses.

Can you develop a T cell response without developing antibodies? That seems to be a possibility: a small study of patients and their families shows that an unexpected six out of eight family members who caught the virus at home had T cell responses but no detectable antibodies.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/25/viral-immunologist-antibody-tests-covid-19-immuity-coronavirus

_- Steve

What a 100-degree day in Siberia really means

What a 100-degree day in Siberia really means
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/what-100-degree-day-siberia-means-climate-change/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20200623science-siberiaheatwave::rid=&sf235346290=1

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Top 10 books about remaking the future | Science fiction books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/24/top-10-books-about-remaking-the-future-peter-f-hamilton?CMP=share_btn_tw


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There’s no such thing as a government-issued ‘face mask exempt card’ — it’s all a fraud – Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-face-mask-exempt-card-its-all-a-fraud/


_- Steve

What have been the fatal risks of Covid, particularly to children and younger adults?

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-have-been-the-fatal-risks-of-covid-particularly-to-children-and-younger-adults-a5cbf7060c49


_- Steve

A mathematical model reveals the influence of population heterogeneity on herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2 | Science

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/22/science.abc6810.full


_- Steve

How Covid-19 can damage the brain - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19-infection


_- Steve

An Algorithm That 'Predicts' Criminality Based on a Face Sparks a Furor | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/algorithm-predicts-criminality-based-face-sparks-furor/


_- Steve

The Untold Number of People Implicated in Crimes They Didn’t Commit Because of Face Recognition

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-untold-number-of-people-implicated-in-crimes-they-didnt-commit-because-of-face-recognition/


_- Steve

BuzzFeed: Our Readers Say These 17 Products For Dogs Are The Best They've Ever Bought

Our Readers Say These 17 Products For Dogs Are The Best They've Ever Bought
Including an indestructible chew toy, a no-pull harness, and a donut bed you'll probably wish came in human sizes.

Read in BuzzFeed: https://apple.news/AuNSEkxkFRTSsyPxNIHKycw


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Estimating range with sample range

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2014/10/24/sample-range/


_- Steve

How — and When — Can the Coronavirus Vaccine Become a Reality? — ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-and-when-can-the-coronavirus-vaccine-become-a-reality


_- Steve

The Use of Masks and Respirators to Prevent Transmission of Influenza: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Evidence - PubMed

Eight of nine retrospective observational studies found that mask and/or respirator use was independently associated with a reduced risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22188875/

_- Steve

The use of masks and respirators to prevent transmission of influenza: a systematic review of the scientific evidence

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00307.x


_- Steve

Coronavirus vaccines: How technologies may develop COVID-19 shots

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2020/06/21/different-technologies-developing-vaccine-against-covid-19/5318458002/


_- Steve

Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment | PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/12411


_- Steve

COVID-19: New Antibody Test Results Released For Hudson Valley For First Time In Six Weeks | White Plains Daily Voice

https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/whiteplains/news/covid-19-new-antibody-test-results-released-for-hudson-valley-for-first-time-in-six-weeks/789445/


_- Steve

Predictive probability: Using uncertainty in a probability

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2016/09/20/uncertainty-in-a-probability/


— Steve Smith

Avoidance of vitamin D deficiency to slow the COVID-19 pandemic | BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/20/bmjnph-2020-000096


— Steve Smith

Using influenza surveillance networks to estimate state-specific prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States | Science Translational Medicine

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/22/scitranslmed.abc1126.full


— Steve Smith

Scientists produce first open source all-atom models of COVID-19 'spike' protein

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-scientists-source-all-atom-covid-spike.html


_- Steve

Opinion | Ross Douthat: The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/nyt-tom-cotton-oped-liberalism.html


_- Steve

Bacterial retrons function in anti-phage defense | bioRxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.21.156273v1


_- Steve

Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment | PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/12411


_- Steve

As Problems Grow With Abbott’s Fast COVID Test, FDA Standards Are Under Fire | Kaiser Health News

https://khn.org/news/abbott-rapid-test-problems-grow-fda-standards-on-covid-tests-under-fire/


_- Steve

Arizona ICUs Have Less Than 300 Beds Available As Coronavirus Cases Rise

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-arizona-icu-beds-85-percent-capacity-1512352


_- Steve

New Method for Determining Inpatient and ICU Bed Availability Launched Today – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

1567 ICU beds
https://directorsblog.health.azdhs.gov/new-method-for-determining-inpatient-and-icu-bed-availability-launched-today/

_- Steve

American Hospital Directory - Individual Hospital Statistics for Arizona

https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_AZ.html


_- Steve

Hundreds test positive for coronavirus at Tyson Foods plant - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-22/hundreds-test-positive-coronavirus-tyson-foods-plant-arkansas


_- Steve

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Surveillance — United States, January 22–May 30, 2020 | MMWR

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924e2.htm


_- Steve

Tucson ICU nurse: COVID-19 is real & people are dying | Guest opinion

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061420_covid_nurse_op/


_- Steve

Tucson ICU nurse: COVID-19 is real & people are dying | Guest opinion

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061420_covid_nurse_op/


_- Steve

What they don’t tell you about surviving COVID-19 - SFGate

https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/What-they-don-t-tell-you-about-surviving-15347792.php


_- Steve

Outdoor Adventure for Young Adults Living with Cancer and MS

https://firstdescents.org/


_- Steve

Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Treatment, by Stage

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/ovarian-cancer/treating/by-stage.html


_- Steve

Ovarian & Related Cancer

https://www.facingourrisk.org/understanding-brca-and-hboc/information/risk-factors/ovarian-cancer-risks/basics/ovarian-cancer-risk-after-breast-cancer.php


_- Steve

Why a Mask is Not Just a Mask | Columbia University Global Mental Health Programs

https://www.cugmhp.org/five-on-friday/why-a-mask-is-not-just-a-mask/


_- Steve

After 100 days of sheltering in the Bay Area, what have we learned about the coronavirus? - SFChronicle.com

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/After-100-days-of-sheltering-in-the-Bay-Area-15354723.php


_- Steve

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/putins-people-how-the-kgb-took-back-russia-and-then-took-on-the-west


_- Steve

‘Shakespeare in a Divided America’ considers the tug-of-war over the Bard

'Shakespeare in a Divided America' considers the tug-of-war over the Bard
https://ezorigin.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2020/0619/Shakespeare-in-a-Divided-America-considers-the-tug-of-war-over-the-Bard?icid=rss

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COVID-19: New Antibody Test Results Released For Hudson Valley For First Time In Six Weeks | White Plains Daily Voice

https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/whiteplains/news/covid-19-new-antibody-test-results-released-for-hudson-valley-for-first-time-in-six-weeks/789445/


_- Steve

Advisory 2020-008: Copy-paste compromises - tactics, techniques and procedures used to target multiple Australian networks | Cyber.gov.au

The Australian Government is currently aware of, and responding to, a sustained targeting of Australian governments and companies by a sophisticated state-based actor. 

https://www.cyber.gov.au/threats/advisory-2020-008-copy-paste-compromises-tactics-techniques-and-procedures-used-target-multiple-australian-networks

_- Steve

5 Novels About the JFK Assassination

https://bookriot.com/2013/11/20/5-novels-jfk-assassination/


_- Steve

Libra (novel) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(novel)


_- Steve

How Hawaii Became a Rare Covid Success Story

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/19/hawaii-covid-success-story-322919


_- Steve

US Senate Passes Great American Outdoors Act

US Senate Passes Great American Outdoors Act
https://www.sunset.com/travel/wild-lands/senate-public-lands-with-great-american-outdoors-act

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Judge rejects Trump bid to ban ex-adviser's book

Judge rejects Trump bid to ban ex-adviser's book
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53118721

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Have Apple And Google Suddenly Uploaded A COVID-19 Tracking App To Your Phone?

Have Apple And Google Suddenly Uploaded A COVID-19 Tracking App To Your Phone?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/06/20/have-apple-and-google-suddenly-uploaded-a-covid-19-tracking-app-to-your-phone-android-iphone-exposure-notification-contact-tracing/

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The Easiest Cucumber Salad Ever (It's Almost Too Good to Be True)

The Easiest Cucumber Salad Ever (It's Almost Too Good to Be True)
https://www.thekitchn.com/salt-pepper-smashed-cucumber-salad-recipe-23039470

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The Guardian: The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer

The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer
A vampire in Shanghai, artists on Hydra, and identical twins run away to New Orleans... dazzling novels plus the best politics, history,and memoir to take you away from lockdown

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/AptTxc4atQ9KdkRMlGx_SRw


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All That We've Learned About Human Origins Recently — and What We Still Want to Know | Discover Magazine

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/all-that-weve-learned-about-human-origins-recently-and-what-we-still-want?utm_source=dsctwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dsctwitter


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SIDS by Baby's Age Infographic | Safe to Sleep

https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/resources/providers/downloadable/infographic_byage


_- Steve

Immunization Schedule (for Parents) - Nemours KidsHealth

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/immunization-chart.html


_- Steve

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Pediatric Vaccine Ordering and Administration — United States, 2020 | MMWR

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e2.htm


_- Steve

Lessons from the Lockdown—Why Are So Many Fewer Children Dying? • Children's Health Defense

Hmm...

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/lessons-from-the-lockdown-why-are-so-many-fewer-children-dying/


_- Steve

Infant, Child, and Teen Mortality - Child Trends

https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/infant-child-and-teen-mortality


_- Steve

Forty-Five Years Since Their Graduation, Three of Caltech's First Female BS Recipients Look Back | www.caltech.edu

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/forty-five-years-their-graduation-three-caltechs-first-female-bs-recipients-look-back-81687


_- Steve

Coronavirus Statistics: Tracking The Epidemic In New York - Gothamist

https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-statistics-tracking-epidemic-new-york


_- Steve

Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review[v2] | Preprints

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2


_- Steve

Ovarian Cancer: Prognosis, Life Expectancy, and Survival Rates

https://www.healthline.com/health/cancer/ovarian-cancer-outlook


_- Steve

Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review[v2] | Preprints

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2


_- Steve

Are These Claims About the Effectiveness of Face Masks True?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/effectiveness-face-masks/


_- Steve

Behind The Song: Bob Dylan, "Blind Willie McTell" « American Songwriter

https://americansongwriter.com/blind-willie-mctell-bob-dylan-behind-the-song/


_- Steve