If you have a 23andme account, today is a good day to login and request the deletion of your data: www.npr.org/2024/10/03/g...
The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the genetic data it has on 15 million people.
Really grateful to Jenny for writing this great piece about the Spoonbill Club - our little venture to run birding trips for Bay Area folks with long COVID and other energy-limiting chronic illnesses. (And I hope someone fulfils Molly Adams's wish of starting a NY chapter.)
In February 2024, science writer @edyong209.bsky.social hosted a new birding club, just for #COVID long-haulers. He hopes to offer long-haulers community and an accessible way to enjoy nature. Read my latest Audubon story, with tips on starting a local club! #SciWri www.audubon.org/magazine/new...
Ed Yong, an award-winning science journalist who widely covered the pandemic, recently launched The Spoonbill Club to provide community—and an accessible hobby—for folks with long COVID.
4 years ago today John Ioannidis published an article in STAT warning against Covid countermeasures because he believe it was plausible only 1% people would be infected and 10K would die. (1/2) sciencebasedmedicine.org/10000-deaths/
"This would translate to about 10,000 deaths" Two years ago, Dr. John Ioannidis wrote an essay in STAT titled “A Fiasco in The Making? As The Coronavirus Pandemic Takes Hold, We Are Making Decisions W...
New comic: What did we learn from Covid? www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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6.4% US adults reported ever having experienced Long Covid , by CDC today www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
The next hyper-mutated SARS-CoV-2 variant on watch is BA.2.87, with a markedly different spike sequence from any prior variant, including BA.2.86. If/when it picks up new mutations like JN.1, it'll help drive another wave biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Too much protein in the diet may carry a risk of heart disease secondary to leucine's effect. An important report considering recent advocacy for very high-protein diets. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Traditional masculinity is in danger of disappearing forever, we need to return to a time when Real Men carried tiny babby kittens around everywhere. Ca. 1915. ehive.com/collections/...
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