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@4LOVofScience XaoS 💜😎 2/ One reason given by The BMJ was that the Swedish were *not* able to protect the elderly. In July, sharon begley and Andrew Joseph have done a deeper analysis of the Swedish strategy and compared it to the U.S: statnews.com/2020/07/15/cov…

Thank you, loyal readers & supporters. Hard to believe, but STAT is 5 years old next week. Trip down memory lane with us: statnews.com/2020/10/26/as-…

In which anyone who's anyone in #CRISPR land weighs in on heritable editing, via The CRISPR Journal liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cr…

Today is my first day STAT! I've got a shiny new email, [email protected], so go ahead & fill my inbox with tips & ideas on coronavirus. What are the overlooked problems, who deserves greater scrutiny, who's using this pandemic to their own advantage?

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Good science often seems prescient, including this excellent reporting from sharon begley about Michael Osterholm at CIDRAP projections about the pandemic from May 2020. #covid19, #publichealth ow.ly/kC2130rhYVd

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) #Fauci Learn more about our #STATSummit here: buff.ly/31JdPtc Get your viewer pass here: buff.ly/3onsQuJ

Back Bay shook, a little after 9 am #Bostonearthquake

What's the chance an event in your community with X people has at least 1 #COVID19 case? Cool new interactive tool from Georgia Tech tells you (enlarge map to see your county easily): covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu (paper: nature.com/articles/s4156…)

Some rare good #COVID19 news: we're getting better at keeping people alive, Andrew Joseph reports: 11.4% mortality in March, < 5% in June, 3.7% in September. statnews.com/2020/11/23/hos…

Want real-time commentary on what's going on with the FDA's key meeting on the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine? We've got covered. w/ yours truly Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 Adam Feuerstein ✡️ Damian Garde We have, in fact, done this sort of thing before. statnews.com/2020/12/10/tra…

Curious about your risk of dying from #COVID19, based on where you live + age & other personal risk factors? Thanks to researchers Johns Hopkins University , you can calculate it: covid19risktools.com:8443/riskcalculator

Perhaps you (understandably) tuned out news of every little advance in understanding #COVID19. No problem: STAT's Andrew Joseph tells us, almost a year into the pandemic, what scientists know about how it spreads, infects, and sickens. statnews.com/2020/12/14/por… #coronavirus

Come on--you know you want to cast a vote in Adam Feuerstein ✡️ 's best #biotech CEO of 2020 contest. Here you go: statnews.com/2020/12/15/her…

Here are the CEOs who committed blunders or offenses in 2020 egregious enough to land on Adam Feuerstein ✡️'s naughty list. buff.ly/2KyRtVy

We here STAT are humbled, RealClearScience --thank you for deeming us the #1 science website of 2020. On to 2021: realclearscience.com/blog/2020/12/1…

This looks to be the first experimental evidence that the deletion found in the UK variant impacts infection of SARS-CoV-2. (similar to what has been shown for the well known D614G mutant)

It is with deep sadness that I share that my mother, Sharon, passed away earlier today, January 16th, in Boston, due to complications from lung cancer. Please comment with your own thoughts, memories, or stories about Sharon.

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