A coronavirus pandemic linkfest is for now a weekly feature here on Abnormal Returns. Please stay safe and find a vaccination site near you. You can read last week’s edition here.
Quote of the Day
"I feel I am unchained now. I feel alive again. My fear is gone. My whole family is vaccinated. I encourage everyone to take the vaccine."
(Aziz Abdul Alim)
Chart of the Day
Which groups are more (and less) willing to get the Covid vaccine.
Vaccines
- Pfizer ($PFE) is seeking full FDA approval of its Covid vaccine. (politico.com)
- Moderna ($MRNA) sold 500 million vaccine doses to COVAX. (barrons.com)
- CureVac is set to become the third provider of RNA-based vaccines. (nytimes.com)
- Patents are not what is holding back Covid vaccine supply. (marginalrevolution.com)
Immunity
- A single dose provides high efficacy among those with a prior Covid infection. (sciencedaily.com)
- How mixing and matching vaccine doses could induce bigger antibody responses. (npr.org)
- Who will be first in line to receive booster shots? (cnbc.com)
Vaccine
- The era of mass vaccination is over. Now the hard work begins. (theatlantic.com)
- Researchers are already looking at new, cheaper and easier ways to administer Covid vaccines. (wsj.com)
- Vaccine doses are going to waste due to a lack of the proper syringes. (wsj.com)
- Post-vaccine anxiety is a real thing. (vox.com)
Vaccine hesitancy
- Vaccine hesitancy is going to prevent the U.S. from reaching herd immunity. (nytimes.com)
- A lot of vaccine hesitancy is rooted in Covid denialism. (theatlantic.com)
- Vaccine refusal looks bad when you look at what is happening in the rest of the world. (theatlantic.com)
- Police officers are uniquely reluctant to get vaccinated. (washingtonpost.com)
- Pockets of vaccine reluctance will increase the possibility of new variants. (politico.com)
- Money and masks: which incentives will work best at convincing people to get vaccinated. (nytimes.com)
- Vaccine hesitancy is not a U.S-only phenomenon. (npr.org)
Aerosols
- The CDC has finally acknowledged that the novel coronavirus is spread via aerosols. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why did it take so long for the CDC and WHO to acknowledge the facts of airborne transmission? (nytimes.com)
- What building owners can do to make their buildings healthier, post-pandemic. (fastcompany.com)
Testing
Data
- Why researchers believe that Covid deaths are some 50% undercounted in the U.S. (npr.org)
- As more adults get vaccinated, cases will begin to accumulate among children. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Global
- Covid is everywhere including at base camp on Mt. Everest. (outsideonline.com)
- Covid is now ripping through countries that previously avoided the worst of the pandemic. (wsj.com)
- Now inoculated, Israelis are getting back to the office. (bloomberg.com)
Normalcy
- Why it's time to start loosening visitation restrictions in hospitals. (slate.com)
- Why getting back to normal can feel so weird, post-vaccination. (huffpost.com)
- Why some people are reluctant to re-enter society, post-pandemic. (scientificamerican.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: the pattern of resistance. (abnormalreturns.com)
- There's only one way through the pandemic tunnel. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The 'Swiss cheese model' and the importance of avoiding single points of failure in pandemic and life. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Get used to the term 'digital health passport' as the coronavirus vaccine rolls out nationwide. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the challenge of holding two competing thoughts on the pandemic in your head a the same time. (abnormalreturns.com)
