A coronavirus-focused 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
"Creating incentives for vaccination is vital; treating the removal of an important protective measure as an incentive is folly."
(Ed Yong)
Companies
- J&J ($JNJ) is going to have to dispose of a big batch of vaccines from the Emergent BioSolutions plant. (nytimes.com)
- Moderna ($MRNA) is seeking authorization for vaccines for adolescents. (wsj.com)
- Are other vaccine makers going to be able to take share from the established players over time? (ft.com)
Vaccines
- How Novavax's ($NVAX) Covid vaccine works. (npr.org)
- The case for fractional dosing: a half dose of Moderna ($MRNA) vaccine is better than a full AstraZeneca ($AZN). (marginalrevolution.com)
- New variants only increase the importance of vaccinations. (statnews.com)
- How vaccine boosters could play out. (nytimes.com)
Treatment
- Future Covid antibody treatments could come via nasal spray. (nature.com)
- The four most urgent questions about long Covid including 'What is the underlying biology of long COVID?' (nature.com)
Testing
Behavior
- How the CDC should have framed its mask decision. (nytimes.com)
- How behavioral science can increase vaccination uptake. (crispydoc.com)
Data
- San Francisco seems to have achieved herd immunity. (theguardian.com)
- People who wore masks, got sick less. (axios.com)
- Making a flu shot this year will be a lot easier. (statnews.com)
Global
- Why the West should be doing more to vaccinate the world. (economist.com)
- Australia has been effective combating Covid but it has come with some costs. (ft.com)
- When it comes to getting the vaccine, American expats are stuck in no man's land. (washingtonpost.com)
- Canada's borders are still pretty much closed. (theatlantic.com)
- What's behind Thailand's slow vaccine rollout? (ft.com)
- Norway is done with the pandemic. (marketwatch.com)
Lab-leak hypothesis
- What scientists know (and don't) about the lab-leak hypothesis. (nature.com)
- A prominent lab-leak proponent has walked things back. (irishtimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: coronavirus severity. (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)
- On the challenge of holding two competing thoughts on the pandemic in your head a the same time. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- A Q&A with Scott Gottlieb author of the new book “Uncontrolled Spread: Why Covid-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic.” (bloomberg.com)
- Pandemics end when we stop caring about the victims. (theatlantic.com)
- 2021 could have turned out very differently. (fastcompany.com)
- How Covid warped our brains. (washingtonpost.com)
