Tim Skellett
Me: interests: #scicomm, books, gardening, philosophy, science journalism, photography, #nature, #travel, #DiscWorld, and so on.
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Citizen Scientists Make History In The Quest To Cure Coronavirus
Gamers and other volunteers lent their processing power to the world's largest supercomputing project, to take down coronavirus
Mexico passes 900,000 confirmed coronavirus cases
Mexico's health ministry reported on Tuesday 5,942 additional cases of the novel coronavirus and 643 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 901,268 and the death toll to 89,814.
A Flu Vaccine May Provide Some Protection Against Covid-19, Dutch Study Suggests
Preliminary research out this month may provide you with a bit more incentive to get the flu vaccine. It found evidence that flu vaccination led to a lowered risk of getting covid-19 among health care workers in the Netherlands. Though not...
Tim Skellett
Interesting. I won't ballyhoo it at all, and it's questionable, but interesting.
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Monkeys May Have Self-Domesticated Just Like Humans Did, Study Suggests
Monkeys, much like humans, could be engaged in the process of self-domesticating themselves, altering the course of their own evolution and physiology through the way they behave with one another, new research suggests.
A Rational Reopening Guide
Megan Mansell offers a framework for operating any facility or business during COVID.
The Ban on Elective Procedures Is Killing More People Than COVID-19
Originally written for National Security Advisor, Col. Randall Larsen’s blog, A Good War, published 4/21/20
A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease
Government's powers to contain pandemics should be clearly defined and limited by objective law so as to respect and protect individual freedoms.
Tim Skellett
1/n Reading the "Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease: Planning for the Next Pandemic", the Ayn Rand Institute’s white paper on America’s response to the pandemic, by Onkar Ghate. It has an odd, self-serving idea of 'rights': the infected have none?
newideal.aynrand.org/pandemic-respo… pic.twitter.com/zGK0LOFgUm
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In Defense of Ayn Rand
A senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute takes issue with a column by Paul Krugman that blamed her philosophy for the weak response to the pandemic.
Tim Skellett
tweeps, asking y'all for your help, someone please DM me the text of
nytimes.com/2020/10/26/opi… (behind a paywall)
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In just a week, the fall coronavirus surge added nearly half a million cases to the US total
In just one week, the fall surge in Covid-19 infections added nearly half a million cases to the national total.
Here's where overseas and military voters can return their ballots using the internet
Electronic transmission can give military voters in remote areas a better chance of having their votes counted, but also raises security concerns.
Covid: Antibodies 'fall rapidly after infection'
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.
Study Shows Covid-19 Antibodies Waning Over Time, Suggesting Immunity Might Wear Off
An English study showed the number of people with Covid-19 antibodies declined over the summer, suggesting that getting the virus may not confer long-lasting immunity.
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Bestattungskultur: Hund und Katze auf dem Friedhof
Wie eine Gesellschaft um Tiere trauert, lässt viele Rückschlüsse zu
Corona: Merkel für begrenzten Lockdown
Schulen, Kitas und Einzelhandel sollen laut einem Bericht offenbleiben. Härteres Vorgehen ist bei Veranstaltungen und Gastronomie geplant.
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Tim Skellett
Reportedly: Merkel for a limited new lockdown; schools & kindergartens should remain open except in regions with very high R0; non-essential commerce should remain mostly unhindered, but restaurants, pubs? and large social events would be hard-hit.
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Continual lockdowns are not the answer to bringing Covid under control | Devi Sridhar
Countries such as Vietnam and New Zealand are reopening due to robust strategies. When will we learn from them, asks Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University
Coronavirus antibody prevalence falling in England, REACT study shows | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Tests on more than 365,000 people in England have shown that the antibody response to the virus that causes COVID-19 wanes over time.