Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but the coronavirus pandemic calls for special attention. We highlight any COVID-19 perspectives that Tincture published last week, as well as other non-Tincture COVID-19 articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.
Jordan’s Takeaways
Ugh. UK variant may be 30 per cent more deadly
Median interval from vaccine receipt to symptom onset was 13 minutes (range, 2–150 minutes) Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
Men are more susceptible than women to COVID-19 Sex differences in susceptibility, severity, and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019: Cross-sectional analysis from a diverse US metropolitan…
Last week I wrote about, well, how awful social media has become, so this week it’s nice to write about pretty much the opposite: Wikipedia turned twenty last Friday (January 15).
In person years that’s not even old enough to buy alcohol, but in Internet years that makes it one of the grand old masters, like Google or Amazon. Wikipedia is one of the most visited Internet destinations, with its 55+ million articles, in 300+ languages, getting some 10b+ views per month.
It is something that, by all rights, shouldn’t exist, much less be successful. A non-profit, volunteer written/edited, online encyclopedia? An online resource widely trusted for its objective, generally accurate articles in a world of fake news? …
Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but the coronavirus pandemic calls for special attention. We highlight any COVID-19 perspectives that Tincture published last week, as well as other non-Tincture COVID-19 articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.
Tincture Takeaways
Everything you need to know right now. Jordan Shlain, MD: Dispatch #16: Vaccines, Variants & a Massive Third Wave
Jordan’s Takeaways
People like it. COVID forced psychiatric care online. Many patients want it to stay there, study finds
Kim’s Takeaways
If only there had been a — what do you call it? Oh, yeah — a plan. Covid-19 Vaccines Are Getting Stuck at the Last…
Well, you’d have to say that the past week has been interesting. It’s not every week that Joe Biden “officially” won the 2021 election, again, as Congress certified the election results. It’s not every century when the U.S. Capitol is overrun by hostile forces. And it’d never been true before that Twitter and Facebook banned President Trump’s accounts, or that various tech companies belatedly acted on the threat that Parler poses. Oh, and we hit new daily records for COVID-19 deaths (over 4,000) and hospitalizations (over 132,000) in case you’d forgotten there is still a pandemic going on.
Yes, all in all, a very “interesting” week. …
Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but the coronavirus pandemic calls for special attention. We highlight any COVID-19 perspectives that Tincture published last week, as well as other non-Tincture COVID-19 articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.
Jordan’s Takeaways
Jordan was busy again this week.
Kim’s Takeaways
That’s a relief. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against key mutation found in fast-spreading virus variants, study shows
It just keeps on giving. 6-month consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a cohort study
Some things to consider. Here’s How The U.S. …
Google’s corporate motto — written in its original Code of Conduct — was once “Don’t be evil.” That softened over time; Alphabet changed it to “Do the right thing” in 2015, although Google itself retained the slogan until early 2018. Some Alphabet employees think Google/Alphabet has drifted too far away from its original aims: they’ve formed a union in order to try to steer the company back to its more idealistic roots.
Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw, two Alphabet software engineers, announced the Alphabet Workers Union in a New York Times op-ed, vowing to live by the original motto, and to do what they can to ensure that Alphabet and its various companies do as well. …
Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but the coronavirus pandemic calls for special attention. We highlight any COVID-19 perspectives that Tincture published last week, as well as other non-Tincture COVID-19 articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.
Jordan’s Takeaways
Jordan took the week off. :)
Kim’s Takeaways
It ain’t over. Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
We just can’t get things right. America was always going to bungle the vaccine rollout
And this is where we are. It’s time to consider delaying the second dose of coronavirus vaccine
Jaw drop. Pharmacist Arrested, Accused Of Destroying More Than 500 Moderna Vaccine…
2020 is almost over; thank goodness. It has been one of the strangest, and longest, years most of us have ever endured. We’ve all probably known someone who contracted COVID-19; many of us have had lost loved ones from it. Most of us have had to make drastic changes to our lives — masks, social distancing, limits on family visits, eating out, concerts, or trips among them. No, 2020 can’t get over fast enough.
Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but the coronavirus pandemic calls for special attention. We highlight any COVID-19 perspectives that Tincture published last week, as well as other non-Tincture COVID-19 articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.
Jordan’s Takeaways
All the details on Moderna’s Vaccine. Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
Mutations. Got questions about the new Covid-19 variant in South Africa? Health department has lots of answers
Kim’s Takeaways
Sigh. Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.
Something new to hope for. UCLH doses first patient in the world in Covid-19 antibody…
Feeling good about your holiday spending? You’ve made it through most of this mostly horrible 2020, maybe lost a job or even a loved one, but still probably found a way to buy presents for your loved ones and maybe even to give some money to charity. Indeed, charitable giving was up 7.5% for the first half of 2020, despite the economic headwinds.
Then there’s MacKenzie Scott.
Ms. Scott, as you may recall, is the former wife of Amazon founder/CEO Jeff Bezos. She got Amazon stock worth some $38b in their 2019 divorce, which is now estimated to be worth around $62b. She just gave away $4.2b — and that’s on top of $1.7b …
