May 6, 2021
Some days it is difficult to be witty or entertaining. Some days it is your wife's birthday, and you want to make breakfast.
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CDC National Hospitalization trend data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usco&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=casesf
The U.S. Regionally - N.Y. Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Vaccine Tracker
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
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It is looking good for 12-15-year-olds to get the Pfizer vaccine:
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1390167715336179717/photo/1
I.D. Doc David Boulware comments on data from Scotland. The study looked at 144,525 healthcare workers and 194,362 of their household members between 12/2020 and 3/2021. "If 1 member of a household is fully vaccinated, the risk of COVID drops by 54% in unvaccinated household members. (30% reduction after any vaccine dose)."
https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/1389924806515175436?s=10
article
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.21253275v1
Dr. Monica Gandhi reviews the data on outdoor transmission. Bottom line - outdoor is very, very safe. It appears somewhere between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10,000 infections is traceable to outdoor spread in the cited studies.
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1390164552101240836?s=20
Here is a technical but interesting article from Nature Medicine correlating the timing of the immune response to COVID and outcomes. It appears that the longer it takes to develop neutralizing antibodies to COVID, the higher the probability of severe illness or death. These data add a new dimension - time to immune response rather than just magnitude of response - to our understanding of how the body fights viral infections.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01355-0a
Yesterday I had a conversation with a loyal reader about the newfound comfort with not leaving home. Today I learned that feeling has a name - Cave Syndrome.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cave-syndrome-keeps-the-vaccinated-in-social-isolation1/
In May and August 2020, I shared articles about llama antibodies. Similar to COVID-sniffing dogs, various news outlets have dangled these amusing nuggets in front of me for some time now. While not as rapid as mRNA vaccine development, scientists are developing camelid nanoantibodies as a COVID therapy. Here is what I learned. Wally and Winter, the llamas, are at the forefront of llama-based research. And they have competition. Hybrigenics is "your trusted source in synthetic llama nanobody supply." You got it. We live in a world where you have choices. Inoculate your llamas directly to generate "organic" antibodies. Or, you can have bespoke nanobodies selected for you from a trusted library.
https://scitechdaily.com/how-llamas-wally-and-winter-are-helping-scientists-find-effective-covid-19-treatments/
and
https://www.hybribody.com/contenu/hybribody-the-next-generation-nanobodies
Infographics of the day: Visualizing words
Platus is the root of many flat things:
https://i.redd.it/zqy4m9ztm4x61.jpg
And my world is enriched. In addition to my tenured use of the visual thesaurus, I now know about Etymology Explorer.
https://www.etymologyexplorer.com/
and
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/
---Bonus Round - Humor fighting ignorance
I found this article about fighting science denial.
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/humor_works_better_than_scorn_at_fighting_science_denial-253951
It cites a review of strategic communication techniques in dispelling falsehoods.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2002484118
"As science falsehoods are often presented with emotional appeals, we focus our perspective on the roles of emotion and humor in the formation of science attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Recent research sheds light on how funny science and emotions can help explain and potentially overcome our inability or lack of motivation to recognize and challenge misinformation."
Check out the references - a great set of links to papers on behavior shaping and communication.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2002484118#ref-list-1
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
Back on Monday
Some days it is difficult to be witty or entertaining. Some days it is your wife's birthday, and you want to make breakfast.
---
CDC National Hospitalization trend data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usco&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=casesf
The U.S. Regionally - N.Y. Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Vaccine Tracker
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
-----
It is looking good for 12-15-year-olds to get the Pfizer vaccine:
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1390167715336179717/photo/1
I.D. Doc David Boulware comments on data from Scotland. The study looked at 144,525 healthcare workers and 194,362 of their household members between 12/2020 and 3/2021. "If 1 member of a household is fully vaccinated, the risk of COVID drops by 54% in unvaccinated household members. (30% reduction after any vaccine dose)."
https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/1389924806515175436?s=10
article
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.21253275v1
Dr. Monica Gandhi reviews the data on outdoor transmission. Bottom line - outdoor is very, very safe. It appears somewhere between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10,000 infections is traceable to outdoor spread in the cited studies.
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1390164552101240836?s=20
Here is a technical but interesting article from Nature Medicine correlating the timing of the immune response to COVID and outcomes. It appears that the longer it takes to develop neutralizing antibodies to COVID, the higher the probability of severe illness or death. These data add a new dimension - time to immune response rather than just magnitude of response - to our understanding of how the body fights viral infections.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01355-0a
Yesterday I had a conversation with a loyal reader about the newfound comfort with not leaving home. Today I learned that feeling has a name - Cave Syndrome.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cave-syndrome-keeps-the-vaccinated-in-social-isolation1/
In May and August 2020, I shared articles about llama antibodies. Similar to COVID-sniffing dogs, various news outlets have dangled these amusing nuggets in front of me for some time now. While not as rapid as mRNA vaccine development, scientists are developing camelid nanoantibodies as a COVID therapy. Here is what I learned. Wally and Winter, the llamas, are at the forefront of llama-based research. And they have competition. Hybrigenics is "your trusted source in synthetic llama nanobody supply." You got it. We live in a world where you have choices. Inoculate your llamas directly to generate "organic" antibodies. Or, you can have bespoke nanobodies selected for you from a trusted library.
https://scitechdaily.com/how-llamas-wally-and-winter-are-helping-scientists-find-effective-covid-19-treatments/
and
https://www.hybribody.com/contenu/hybribody-the-next-generation-nanobodies
Infographics of the day: Visualizing words
Platus is the root of many flat things:
https://i.redd.it/zqy4m9ztm4x61.jpg
And my world is enriched. In addition to my tenured use of the visual thesaurus, I now know about Etymology Explorer.
https://www.etymologyexplorer.com/
and
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/
---Bonus Round - Humor fighting ignorance
I found this article about fighting science denial.
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/humor_works_better_than_scorn_at_fighting_science_denial-253951
It cites a review of strategic communication techniques in dispelling falsehoods.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2002484118
"As science falsehoods are often presented with emotional appeals, we focus our perspective on the roles of emotion and humor in the formation of science attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Recent research sheds light on how funny science and emotions can help explain and potentially overcome our inability or lack of motivation to recognize and challenge misinformation."
Check out the references - a great set of links to papers on behavior shaping and communication.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2002484118#ref-list-1
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
Back on Monday
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