Herd immunity Misconception

Early Herd Immunity against COVID-19: A Dangerous Misconception David Dowdy, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthGypsyamber D’Souza, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health We have listened with concern to voices erroneously suggesting that herd immunity may “soon slow the spread”1 of COVID-19. For example, Rush Limbaugh2 recently claimed that “herd immunity

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One afternoon

i keep having these flashes of the view from Grandpa Wrights front patio, out into the vastness of the mirage that is the California desert area off the 138, and somewhere between Palmdale and Victorville. An area that is sure to grow, one day, and probably a good investment…yet not in my lifetime Frank. But

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Artist Wisdoms

Banksy said art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortableCezanne said we live in a rainbow of chaosKlee said a single day is enough to make us a little largerModigliani said it is your duty in life to save your dreamRenoir said it is after you have lost your teeth you can afford to

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We are all feeling this

“Something will come after this, although who knows what that will be. All we know is it’s not time to build just now.””a time when all the cards have been thrown up into the air, waiting to be gathered upinto new patterns.”Here is a passage from Emerson’s famous essay “The Over-Soul”:Yet there is a depth

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There’s a race on

Got an email to “inform” me that NASCAR starts today, and it is prefaced witha huge colorful photo of racing carswhich leads me to a flashing, channeling memory of Uncle Archevery time i stopped by his house, his tall frame would be comfortably stretched over the couch with the TV on with some sort of

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all the cards are in the air

Heather Cox Richardson  16 May 2020 May 16, 2020 (Saturday) Today former President Barack Obama gave two virtual graduation speeches. Midday, he spoke to the graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and in the evening, he spoke to the high school graduates of 2020 in an event called Graduate Together. Both speeches were

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