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Writer at . Host of podcast CRAZY/GENIUS. Author of book HIT MAKERS. Talker on NPR's and . derek[at]theatlantic[dot]com

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  1. Aug 7

    “Combined, these three sectors account for less than 5% of the CPI — but more than 1/2 of inflation over the past three months”

    Noodling around on recent economic numbers. It's really amazing how much recent inflation reflects just three things: used cars, hotel rooms, and airfares 1/
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    Aug 6

    U.S. per capita carbon emissions are lower now than in 1918.

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  3. Aug 6

    1. Overall, looks like fatal shootings are still rising, but rate of growth might be slowing. 2. Violence is never evenly distributed—in absolute numbers or rate. There are violent large metros where crime is going down, and smaller less-violent places where crime is going up.

    Fatal shootings were higher in June 21 than in June 20 in more than half of major US cities. *But* the numbers fell sharply in some of the big cities that saw huge increases last year, a positive sign that last year's wave of violence is not worsening, and may be slowing slightly
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    Aug 5

    How should the media cover Delta and breakthroughs? Can we do better? A chat with ’s

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    Aug 3

    Link to the preprint Extensive PCR testing showed that fully vaccinated people had lower viral loads than un- or partially vaccinated, supporting decreased potential for Delta transmission

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  6. Aug 4

    In public health as in gymnastics, you can give a bad score while recognizing a difficult job. The CDC has a really hard job right now. Also, it’s kind of sucking.

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    Aug 3

    Almost no country who appeared to “succeed” in the initial disease suppression phase of the pandemic has managed to succeed in the vaccine stage of it.

    Australia became an early pandemic success story by imposing lockdowns, closing borders and following rules. But complacency, a botched vaccine roll out and ideology has plunged it back into Covid-19's crosshairs
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    Aug 3

    New is a very reassuring prospective study of >250,000 children, >1700 with + covid test, age 5-17, that shows the risk for chronic Covid symptoms is quite low; 4.4% beyond 4 weeks

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    Aug 2

    Adjusted for population Florida had 12X as many kids infected as Massachusetts last week And Louisiana? About 10X So what's going on? None of these kids are vaccinated! So why are infection rates so much lower in MA? Right, because kids are protected by adults 4/5

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    Aug 2

    This is still the bottom line on vaccines. They reduce infection, transmission, symptoms, hospitalization, and death. Not achieving those goals 100% does not mean vaccines are failing. Please don't miss the forest for the trees.

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    Aug 1

    Of 163 million Americans fully vaccinated as of July 26, there have been 6,239 hospitalizations, including 1,263 deaths in people diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection. In about 25% of cases, patients were asymptomatic or diagnosis appeared secondary to primary cause of the event.

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  12. Jul 30

    It's really a shame that President Joe Biden signed that executive order banning the use of denominators in COVID headlines.

    Exclusive: At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans tested positive for Covid via
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  13. Jul 30

    Per my pod, think of the pandemic like a rattlesnake infestation. 1. The vaccine eliminates most rattlesnakes. 2. Of the remaining snakes, it defangs most of them. 3. Of the remaining fanged snakes, it de-venoms almost all. The vaccine does *multiple things.*

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  14. Jul 30

    2. Breakthrough cases are real and important. But vaccinated bodies are more prepared for COVID post-infection. The authorized vaccines vs. the Delta variant are still 95% effective against hospitalization and death.

    4) Vaccine efficacy: several estimates; they tend to show ~80% efficacy vs. Delta (vs. the prior 95%). Thankfully vax IS still ~95% effective vs. serious infections. That the efficacy of the vaccines is holding up for serious infections is the main piece of good news here.(6/13)
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  15. Jul 30

    1. I've heard from many vax-hesitant people that they don't need the vaccine bc they had COVID. It's a really popular argument. It's wrong. The vaccine not only provide stronger protection against the variants but also natural infection seems to wane after six months.

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  16. Jul 30

    Really good information in this thread. I want to highlight two things that might help nudge the "wait and see" crowd to get the vaccine ASAP.

    The CDC document that was discussed in today is now on line: The WashPo shared it with me before publication for reactions, and I'm quoted. Some thoughts follow. (1/13)
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  17. Jul 29

    If you're not into space, fine, but maybe think of it not just as a lifeless void into which we send things, but rather as a microgravity space where we make things that are sent back to earth.

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  18. Jul 29

    Space tourism: whatever. Automated space manufacturing to make things like fiber optic cables and 3D printed human tissue that tend to collapse in high-gravity environments: not whatever, very cool.

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    Jul 28

    Something I hear more and more from people not on Twitter: "Are real people upset or is this a Twitter thing?" The idea that this whole place is mostly a dutch oven of indignation and is therefore ignorable is...maybe not wrong.

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    Jul 28

    Excellent piece by on an Urban report suggesting poverty in 2021 will be 7.7%, almost halved from 2018's level of 13.9%

    big if true
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