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vaccine lurking

Demand and limited and short-lived supply 

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The clamor for hard-to-get Covid-19 vaccines has created armies of anxious Americans who have resorted to hunting for leftovers on the fringes of the country’s patchwork vaccination system.

They haunt pharmacies at the end of the day in search of an extra, expiring dose. They drive from clinic to clinic hoping that someone was a no-show to their appointment. They cold-call pharmacies like eager telemarketers: Any extras today? Maybe tomorrow?

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countries that are winning the war

Vietnam - if the US was this good, we'd have about 100 deaths so far..

New Zealand - using a science based approach.  How novel

both from Nature and hopefully outside their paywall

 

 

 

covid driven zoom is bringing change

To sign language

 

what texas gov abbott is really saying

 

Well, we’ve managed to put out about half the fire and the survivors still trapped inside are coughing a bit less; so it's time to close up all the exits and throw away the hose.  

 

dolly gets her jab

very early on she game a million dollars to Vanderbilt for Moderna related research

“I know I’m trying to be funny now, but I’m dead serious about the vaccine,” she said. “I think we all want to get back to normal — whatever that is — and that would be a great shot in the arm, wouldn’t it?”

“I just want to say to all of you cowards out there: Don’t be such a chicken squat,” she added. “Get out there and get your shot.”

 

vaccine unwillingness

 

a tip of the hat to Ethan

 

vaccines and the olympics

Some countries are giving Olympic athletes priority.  On one hand it is a very small percentage of doses and might help convince some of the vaccine-resistant crowd.  On the other hand the optics may be bad - particularly in countries that can't get vaccines.

 

 

on convincing people to get vaccinated

Very necessary - and very difficult for a variety of reasons. (via The Atlantic)

 

 

propublica on power companies

They tend to get what they want.

 

a super expensive road

At some point will sections of California  Highway 1 become too expensive to keep open?

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But the wild card now is the increasing frequency of wildfire along a roughly 100-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst’s hilltop castle at San Simeon to Carmel, which is stripping fragile hillsides of stabilizing vegetation and causing more slides and more serious washouts across a region known broadly as Big Sur.

“We understand our winters — we’re Big Sur people, and we know this happens,” said Patricia Nuñez, who on a recent day was working the register at the town’s minimart, which also rents cabins and oversees the Whale Watcher’s Café, a business known collectively as the Gorda Springs Resort. “This is an expensive, high-maintenance road. But it has to stay open because this is a place that is for more than just tourists. We live here.”

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