A survey of the literature on how RSV and the flu are transmitted, show that, like Covid, they too are tranmitted as airborne aerosols.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
‘This Should Be a National Scandal’: Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI for Denials
Medicare Advantage is neither Medicare nor an advantage.
As Russia Signals It Can Achieve Maximalist Aims in Ukraine, How Would Russia Manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?
Russia is presumably thinking hard about not just how to conclude the war in Ukraine, but what happens the morning after.
We Are Seventeen Years Old
Thank all of you for keeping us fit and feisty after so many years!
The Trouble with Nouns
Classification struggles in the Harvard-Harris poll on Israel.
As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads
Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.
The No-State Solution Becomes More and More Real as Israel’s Permanent Nakba Continues
Why ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been foundational to Israel’s national strategy.
Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s 15-Year Slump
The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/15/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Western Policymakers Are Panicking Because There Was No Plan B if the Counteroffensive Failed
A recap of how the US and NATO painted themselves in a corner with Project Ukraine.
