tingilinde

extreme heat

How the European heatwave would translate in the US

 

warpspeed 2?

The need for a major effort to produce nasal vaccine.

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During the first year of the pandemic, meaningful evolution of the virus was slow-paced, without any functional consequences, but since that time we have seen a succession of important variants of concern, with increasing transmissibility and immune evasion, culminating in the Omicron lineages. With that, there has been a dramatic falloff in the capacity for vaccinations and booster shots to block infections and transmission (2). A major unmet clinical need has arisen to block the transmission chain, prevent the frequent breakthrough infections, and achieve high levels of durable protection against severe disease, no less prevent post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, Long COVID-19).

That has spotlighted the possibility of nasal vaccines, with their allure for achieving mucosal immunity, complementing, and likely bolstering the circulating immunity achieved via intramuscular shots. A new report by Tang and colleagues (3) sheds considerable light on the shortcomings of mRNA vaccines for not achieving respiratory mucosal immunity against Omicron in people, while also showing how well this can be accomplished with a nasal vaccine in mice.

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Given the current political climate it seems unlikely to happen.

 

om on instagram

It's far from its roots and Om isn't happy.

 

wind turbine struck by lightning

monty python anticipates hawley

actually it's easy - Hawley is a common type of coward/bully.  Perhaps their motto is Scamper Fi!

 

studying an eruption

The scramble to learn from Fagradalsfjall.

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Compositionally, the Fagradalsfjall lava was primitive, meaning it came from a deep reservoir of magma, or underground lava, not a shallow reservoir in the Earth’s crust. Noticing this, researchers, including Ed Marshall, a geochemist at the University of Iceland, sprinted to gather more samples as the lava continued to spew out of vents. “We were working all hours — you’re asleep and the volcano’s still erupting and you’re like, ‘I got to get back out there,’” said Dr. Marshall. “But it’s hard to describe how rare this kind of thing is.”

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trump's new swamp

If he gets a second term..

 

 

hcr's summary of the july 21 jan6 hearing

A historian comments

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Cheney then spoke to Trump supporters, reminding them that the testimony had come from Republicans who supported Trump. She played the recently discovered audio clip of Trump confidant Stephen K. Bannon on October 31, 2020, four days before the election, explaining with laughter that Trump would simply declare victory even if he lost. Cheney explained to supporters that they had been set up.

Flattering them, she said Trump knew he could convince his supporters that the election was stolen because he knew they loved their country and that they would put their lives at stake for it, “preying on their patriotism…on their sense of justice.” “On January 6th, Donald Trump turned their love of country into a weapon against our Capitol and our Constitution.”

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kool-aid drinkers going door to door

Spreading lies and distrust and using strong-arm tactics.

 

 

a tour of Stephan's Quintet