Episode 32: Science Friday

Topics:

• Update on numbers
• Update on models
• Let's check in about excess deaths
• Comparing COVID to Flu: How do they compare and is 1918 a useful comparison?
• Novavax vaccine phase 1 data
• The Russian Vaccine (or, Cutting Corners)
• Study found racial bias in distribution of COVID related aid from CARES act to hospitals
• How is reopening going? Examples from GA and New Zealand
• The universal human experience of being at the mercy of a microbe

Links:

• NYT on Excess Deaths
• WaPo, Researchers Publish Comparison between 1918 and 2020
• Healthline, Flu vs COVID
• STAT, Novavax Phase I Vaccine Trial
• WaPo, Russian Vaccine
• PLOS ONE Real World Efficacy of Social Distancing
• STAT, Study finds racial bias in distribution of COVID aid
• NYT, GA School Reopening
• CNN, New Zealand