Fauci on COVID Drugs, Vaccines and Getting Back to Normal

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July 26, 2021

Medicine Fauci on COVID Drugs, Vaccines and Getting Back to Normal The U.S.'s top infectious disease specialist describes a new Biden administration program to develop and test antivirals—and what he's most worried about as the nation reopens By Charles Schmidt

Space Why an Asteroid Strike Is Like a Pandemic Both are low-probability but catastrophic events—and both can be mitigated if we act early enough By Casey Dreier

Neurological Health Immune Cells Suggest New Alzheimer's Treatment Possibilities Brain cells called microglia have different effects as the neurodegenerative disease progresses By Jason Ulrich,David M. Holtzman

Policy & Ethics NASA Investigates Renaming James Webb Space Telescope after Anti-LGBT+ Claims Some astronomers argue the space agency's next flagship observatory will memorialize discrimination. Others are waiting for more evidence By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Space Announcing a New Plan for Solving the Mystery of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena The newly organized Galileo Project will use a three-pronged approach to replace unreliable eyewitness reports with reproducible scientific observations By Avi Loeb

Environment Pesticides Are Killing the Organisms That Keep Our Soils Healthy They harm worms, beetles and thousands of other subterranean species that are vital to agriculture By Nathan Donley,Tari Gunstone

Cognition Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha Can we ever really know the world? By John Horgan

Environment Wild Pigs Release as Much Carbon Emissions as 1 Million Cars The invasive animals uproot soil, exposing it to microbes that release greenhouse gases By Christopher J. O'Bryan,Eve McDonald-Madden,Jim Hone,Matthew H. Holden,Nicholas R Patton,The Conversation US

Engineering Soft Robot Hand Is First to Be Fully 3-D-Printed in a Single Step Then it played Super Mario Bros. By Sophie Bushwick

Public Health How the Delta Variant Spreads So Quickly Viral load is roughly 1,000 times higher in people infected with the Delta variant than those infected with the original coronavirus strain, according to a study in China By Sara Reardon,Nature magazine

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FROM THE ARCHIVE There Are Few Good COVID Antivirals, but That Could Be Changing Developing pills that block the novel coronavirus has been challenging. A new Biden administration program aims to boost the effort By Charles Schmidt | July 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We're doing our very best to get people who haven't been vaccinated to seriously consider how important it is for themselves, the safety of their families and their community responsibility to put an end to this pandemic. And the way you put an end to this pandemic is by getting as many people vaccinated as possible." Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Biden

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