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I've screwed up something in my right calf. Back in late July during a game of basketball, I went for a ball while pushing off my toes, and I felt an immediate burning sensation in the middle of the calf area, and, less certain, I might have heard a pop. It didn't hurt and I was still able to walk ...

Returned. Alive, Working towards being "well," however that may be defined.... I completed orientation in Lviv at the end of March. Upon a review of my background and my Russian language abilities, I was sent to the east of the country to practice and to train and support Ukrainian physici...

I have had numerous discussions with my international partners regarding my potential medical assistance in Ukraine. Since I am fluent in Russian (Most native Ukrainian speakers know Russian), have substantial experience in emergency and trauma surgery as well as experience providing service in war ...

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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Neutralization after mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination Together, these results showed that after the primary two-dose series of the mRNA-1273 vaccine, neutralization titers against the omicron variant were 35.0 times lower than those against the D614G variant. These lower tit...

Dismantling the anti-vaxx industry When we see anti-vaxx misinformation on social media, we must resist falling into the trap of engaging with it, however tempting it may be to point out obvious flaws and falsehoods. Engaging with misinformation online spreads it further: if we scratch the itch, we...

An anti-vaccination cartoon from the 1940's. Anti-vaccination movements were common in the first half of the 20th century. The last natural outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949 and was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980 due to vaccination campaigns and initiatives. One of th...

Our cases of hospitalization are declining, although the people that do show up in the ER are a lot sicker for some reason. People are dying daily over the past 2 weeks, all unvaccinated except one, an elderly renal transplant patient. Are we turning a corner on the pandemic? Who knows? I certainly ...

“Cowardice” is not a constituent of anyone’s character, but instead is only a pejorative applied to those whom we believe do not have the “will” to act or respond in a manner that we, from our own frames and biases, consider “courageous.” I prefer the Aristotelian term “Akrasia” or “weakness of the ...

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Director’s Discretionary Early Release Science Programs To realize the James Webb Space Telescope’s full science potential, it is imperative that the science community quickly learns to use its instruments and capabilities. To get the community up to speed, STScI and the JWST Advisory Committee dev...

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Orbital Insertion Burn a Success, Webb Arrives at L2 Today, at 2 p.m. EST, Webb fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb’s trajectory. This mid-course correction burn inserted Webb toward its final orbit around the ...

https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/tga-provisionally-approves-novavax-biocelect-pty-ltds-covid-19-vaccine-nuvaxovid The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval to Biocelect Pty Ltd (on behalf of Novavax Inc) for its COVID-19 vaccine, NUVAXOVID. This is the first pr...

Webb Mirror Segment Deployments Complete Today, the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the mirror segment deployments. As part of this effort, the motors made over a million revolutions this week, controlled through 20 cryogenic electronics boxes on the telescope. The mirror deployment team ...

A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates, COVID-19 is here to stay. In January 2021, President Biden issued the “National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness.” As the US moves from crisis to control, this ...

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Deaths are likely underreported worldwide for two reasons, both of which disproportionately affect India. To have an accurate death count one needs the adequate national infrastructure for accurate data to be reported. This has been a problem in varying degrees in nations around the world. India is ...

Medical system overload is a real problem for my country and is driving all the worst bits of our covid response - their is literally zero fat in the system to deal with any increase in workload. we have 20 years of running the system down to the bare minimum of cost to thank for that - I cant comp...

An historical engineering achievement. NASA’s Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds

My thanks to Typhoon for addressing misinformation here. Moderation is never perfect and is likely a thankless job. As far as the Vitamin D-Covid issue, I particularly enjoyed the study done at McGill which employed Mendelian randomization. A bit technical, but a method which is less likely to be af...