Favorites January 5th 2022
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Change comes gradually, then suddenly.
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Jim Farley @jimfarley98
If we want to get off gasoline, this is what progress looks like.
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While our attention was diverted by Omicron, FDA approved the viral mutagen molnupiravir (MOV) on the last business day before Christmas. The same time, Merck published that MOV doesn't reduce virus levels in the first 3 days. So patients will be shedding mutated virus for 3 days
Another case where the FDA should consider cost/benefit
If you're wondering who the Republican primary frontrunner is. Plus the other Republicans are all afraid of him.
As Jerusalem Demsas commented: "It’s really lovely to watch someone just delight in how scientific achievement is making the world a better place in such a small and important way"
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You can’t truly appreciate how dumb English spelling rules are until you have to explain them to a 6 year old.
Gotta admit, I'm not looking forward to this.
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This is interesting, rare to get prevalence data on a local population of this size (44,000 test results submitted)
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Timothy B. Lee @binarybits
Super interesting, I wonder what the rate of symptoms was.