The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low

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December 16, 2021

Vaccines The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low After my son got sick, I dived into the data, and it turns out vaccinated people can and do spread COVID By Jennifer Frazer

Weather Tornadoes at Night and in the Southeast Are Especially Deadly Population density and a prevalence of mobile homes make the region a hotspot for tornado deaths By Andrea Thompson

Biotech A Portable MRI Makes Imaging More Democratic An open-source approach downsizes today's clunking behemoths with permanent magnets and deep-learning algorithms By Simon Makin

Climate Change DNA in Air Can Catalog Hidden Insects All around Us New proof-of-concept research shows how environmental DNA (eDNA) technology could be used to assess what is buzzing by By Katharine Gammon

Robotics Want to Get Humans to Trust Robots? Let Them Dance A performance with living and mechanical partners can teach researchers how to design more relatable bots By Sam Jones

Astrophysics NASA Spacecraft 'Touches' the Sun for the First Time Ever The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun's atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Privacy The Log4J Software Flaw Is 'Christmas Come Early' for Cybercriminals A cybersecurity expert explains how the widely used logging software is already making us more vulnerable By Sophie Bushwick

Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to Christmas Eve--or Later A communications glitch between the observatory and its launch vehicle forced the delay, NASA officials say By Hanneke Weitering,SPACE.com

Public Health Rapid COVID Tests Could Help Curb Infections--Especially During the Holidays An expert answers questions about when and how to use the tests By Nathaniel Hafer,The Conversation US

Politics Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he'd do much worse By Timothy Caulfield

Conservation Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk The future of these guardians of the forest, some thousands of years old, is not assured By Dominic Smith,Andrew Robinson

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Vaccines Need Not Completely Stop COVID Transmission to Curb the Pandemic Lessons from other viruses show that even if vaccines don't completely stop disease spread, they can still successfully contain it By Stacey McKenna | January 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It is vital that people responsible for the health of unvaccinated children, as well as people at high risk of infection, understand this: COVID vaccines make it less likely you'll get sick and especially unlikely you'll get very sick. But vaccinated people--whether they have symptoms or not--are contracting and spreading the virus in nontrivial numbers." Jennifer Frazer, science writer

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