pinboard November 23, 2020

• Twitter
  "If this becomes the new norm after losing an election, there will not be many free and fair elections left in the American experiment."
• Twitter
  "Our problems will deepen, in particular, because Mr. Trump’s litigation strategy has led to the emergence of a voter-hostile jurisprudence in the federal courts."
• Airflow studies reveal strategies to reduce indoor transmission of COVID-19 | EurekAlert! Science News
  RT @EricTopol: Yelling, loud speech, singing worse than coughing and sneezing 😷😷
  "Micron-scale expiratory particles emitted …such as speaking or singing, increases dramatically w/ loudness, and can greatly exceed those generated by coughing."
• APS -73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
  – Event – Singing, Dust, and Airborne Disease Transmission
  RT @EricTopol: Yelling, loud speech, singing worse than coughing and sneezing 😷😷
  "Micron-scale expiratory particles emitted …such as speaking or singing, increases dramatically w/ loudness, and can greatly exceed those generated by coughing."
• Twitter
  RT @Atul_Gawande: Having a 3rd vaccine with such strong early results (incl 1 regimen w 90% efficacy) is stunning.

  AZ/Oxford vax:
  – Regimen 1 (1/2 dose then, 1 mo later, full dose): 90%
  – Regimen 2 (2 full doses): 62%
  – Refrigerator storage
  – Just $2.50 per dose

  Now let’s get thru winter alive

• Opinion | Your Brain Is Not for Thinking – The New York Times
• Most coronavirus cases are spread by people without symptoms, CDC now says – CNN
  RT @carlzimmer: Most coronavirus cases are spread by people without symptoms, CDC now says
• What Trump Showed Us About America – POLITICO
  RT @rodrikdani: What Trump showed him, says ⁦@FukuyamaFrancis⁩, that he doesn’t understand America after all. For me it’s the other way around. I didn’t understand America before, and now it feels familiar. I come from Turkey.
• 3rd major COVID-19 vaccine shown to be effective and cheaper
• Opinion | What Makes Trump’s Subversion Efforts So Alarming? His Collaborators – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @gillyarcht: ‘Open-face’ sneezers to be arrested
• Twitter
  RT @JakeMGrumbach: Smash the patriarchy with a universal welfare state 🔨
• NYC Dead Stay in Freezer Trucks Set Up During Spring Covid-19 Surge – WSJ
  RT @fanellijames: The bodies of hundreds who died in New York City during the spring Covid-19 surge are still being stored in freezer trucks on Brooklyn’s waterfront via @pdberger
• St. Louis Children's Hospital Is Now Seeing Adult Patients With COVID-19 | St. Louis Public Radio
  RT @FutureDocs: This is catastrophic. My Alma mater Wash U St Louis Missouri:

  Multiple patients in 1 ICU room. Pediatricians admitting adult #covid19 now

  “Barnes-Jewish ICU near capacity.” They take sick patients across Midwest including IL 😢

  Be a hero. Stay home.

• Twitter
  RT @ShabazzStuart: Nah, I’m good.
• Top hospitals charging patients up to 1,800% more for services than they actually cost: study | Salon.com
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/the-argument-pramila-jayapal-kara-swisher.html)
  RT @RepJayapal: This isn’t the time for small ideas. It’s the time to deliver transformative change that makes a REAL impact in people’s lives. How? By implementing progressive policies that invest in health care, COVID relief, jobs that pay a living wage, and education.
• Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine – The New York Times

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