After the Desperate Ignorance of the Trump Years, Biden’s Words About Science Make Me Weep With Gratitude
It’s striking that while Trump never got around to working at the job, Biden — waiting to be sworn-in — is already hard at work.
A Timeline of Earth’s Average Temperature Since the Last Ice Age Glaciation
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Shocking Long-Lasting Follow-On Effects of COVID-19
By Don Pelton I was so impressed by this Brian Williams interview yesterday of COVID-19 survivor Diana Berrent that I captured this short segment of it from my screen, so that I could share it here. Berrent, in her mid-forties, contracted a mild case of COVID-19 back in February, and convalesced at home with…
Until a coronavirus vaccine is ready, pneumonia vaccines may reduce deaths from COVID-19
Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University The yearly influenza season threatens to make the COVID-19 pandemic doubly deadly, but I believe that this isn’t inevitable. There are two commonly given vaccines – the pneumococcal vaccine and the Hib vaccine – that protect against bacterial pneumonias. These bacteria complicate both influenza and COVID-19, often leading to…
Why males may have a worse response to COVID-19
Meghan E. Rebuli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill If you ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, they’ll often tell you with an accompanying eye roll, “He’s such a baby.” “He’s extra whiny.” Or “he exaggerates so much.” But there may be a biological…