We could know soon whether vaccines work against a scary new coronavirus variant New on MIT Technology Review

Jan 252021
 

Salim Abdool Karim was at a cricket match on December 26, Boxing Day, when he made the mistake of looking at his email. He had received a new report and the news wasn’t good. A heavily mutated coronavirus spotted in South Africa appeared to allow the virus to bind more tightly, and more easily, to human cells. Karim, an epidemiologist and lead covid-19 adviser to the South African government, knew what the report meant. It…

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For second time in four years, Senate confirms ex-general as US defense secretary World Socialist Web Site (en)

Jan 252021
 

While the Democrats and media have hailed retired General Lloyd Austin as the historic first African-American secretary of defense, more significantly he is the second recently retired general tapped to head the Pentagon in four years.

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