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@atomicpoet Jesus! Mary and Joseph! And the wee donkey too...😂

For caturday. Jack Tar, the sailor cat. Patrols the 3rd floor balcony and maintains the watch.

Happiest of Birthdays to my fellow 'Star Trek' alum and friend, LeVar Burton! 🖖

Some nice data supporting the reality that climate change impacts virus vector (bug!) expansion and movement...

Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe.

nature.com/articles/s41467-024

Global diversity and evolution of Salmonella Panama, an understudied serovar causing gastrointestinal and invasive disease worldwide: a genomic epidemiology study biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

A next generation Covid vax has been authorized by a major drug regulator for the first time.

It's a self-amplifying mRNA vax by Arcturus (USA), which could be more durable. It's authorized in Japan - with an application lodged in Europe, too.

Efficacy seems similar or superior efficacy to BNT/Pfizer vax.

Also in this update post @PLOS:

- Some trials of mucosal vax fully recruited or close
- Preclinical research highlights for "variant-proof" & pancoronavirus vaxes

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/

A top U.S. epidemiologist has pierced the silence about COVID’s deeply destructive long tail.

“If we learn one thing from this pandemic, we must recognize ‘pandemics disable people.’”

His testimony deserves a broad audience, writes Andrew Nikiforuk. 🦠

thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/06

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