De Blasio Says Survey Shows Most NYC Public School Children Will Return To In-Person Instruction – Gothamist

August 10, 2020

https://champ.gothamist.com/champ/gothamist/news/nyc-public-school-children-expected-return-person-instruction


Why It Seems Like Bullies Are Everywhere—and How to Stop Them – WSJ

August 9, 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-it-seems-like-bullies-are-everywhereand-how-to-stop-them-11594743348?mod=wsjtwittertest19


Latest Research Points to Children Carrying, Transmitting Coronavirus – WSJ

August 9, 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-research-points-to-children-carrying-transmitting-coronavirus-11596978001?mod=djemHL_t


The Woeful Inadequacy of School-Reopening Plans | The New Yorker

August 9, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/the-woeful-inadequacy-of-school-reopening-plans?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_080920&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5cec251ffc942d3ada0912af&cndid=17835076&hasha=6c307430bfef9a2cb162d3d9f33b6ec8&hashb=f8cf3ac38d651349ef48fb9af47a5e1068049d0d&hashc=a4037f18a77dcfb5b548c03001040222dcb7e301276a619f95d0dd66bd867645&esrc=Auto_Subs&utm_term=TNY_Daily


Connecticut hopes to expand a wastewater testing project to give officials advance warning of coronavirus outbreaks – Hartford Courant

August 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/yaleseas/status/1281674998764244992

https://twitter.com/jordan_peccia/status/1288574981996249091

https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-state-expanding-wastewater-surveillance-20200710-tsttruiyobcvnnbfdhm3dmy7bi-story.html


Monty Hall problem – Wikipedia

August 9, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

collider bias


Opinion | My Isolation Breaking Point – The New York Times

August 9, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/covid-fishing.html Very well written…


Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science

August 9, 2020

Illuminating article by @kprather88
https://science.ScienceMag.org/content/368/6498/1422… Has a worrisome conclusion: #SARSCoV2 can be spread as an aerosol by asymptomatic individuals. The virus behaves a bit like 2nd-hand smoke. (Discussed in @ScienceMagazine podcast by @boron110.)

Perhaps being in public w/o a mask will eventually be treated like public smokers.

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1422


The Pandemic Wiped Out Endurance Races. How They Plan to Come Back – The New York Times

August 9, 2020

Quoting from the article: “Maybe… we’ll have people swim through Purell.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/sports/coronavirus-triathlons-endurance-races.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/sports/coronavirus-triathlons-endurance-races.html


GDPR’s effect on genomic research outside the Europe

August 9, 2020

https://www.ga4gh.org/news/ga4gh-gdpr-brief-understanding-the-extraterritorial-effect-of-the-gdpr-for-genomic-and-health-related-research-july-2020