COVID-19 Info
Information is currently changing. This was last updated on September 16, 2021.
Vaccines
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2021/07/15 Vox: Breakthrough Covid-19 cases can occur, but they’re rare. Let’s explain.
- As of July 6, the CDC reported 5,186 cases of breakthrough Covid-19 cases that led to severe disease among 157 million fully vaccinated people in the US. That’s about a 0.003 percent breakthrough rate for severe disease…
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Why you can’t compare COVID-19 Vaccines
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2020/03/19 Nature: Mix-and-match COVID vaccines trigger potent immune response
疫苗 （中文）
Aerosols
- 2021 Aerosol Science Research Center (ASRC), National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Explainer Comics: The Quest of the Virosols
- 2021/06/27 Jeremy Chrysler: Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard.
- 2021/09/07 The Atlantic: A New Way to Think About Air
- 2021/08/19 New York Times: Why Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers in Classrooms and Restaurants May Make Things Worse
- 2021/06/18 Commonwealth Magazine: Taiwan’s COVID-19 legacy depends on working from home and innovative testing
- 2021/05/13 Wired: The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
- 2021/05/09 The Science Times: COVID-19 Can Spread Beyond 6 Feet, CDC Says Virus is Airborne
- 2021/05/07 New York Times: Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
- 2021/04/29 Science: Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling
- 2021/04/05 US CDC: SARS-CoV-2 and Surface (Fomite) Transmission for Indoor Community Environments
- 2020/06/16 New York Times: Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over
- 2020/11/18 New York Times: The Coronavirus Is Airborne Indoors. Why Are We Still Scrubbing Surfaces?
- 2020/10/28 EL PAÍS: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
氣膠（中文）
- 2021. 王家蓁 (國立中山大學 氣膠科學研究中心). 科普漫畫: 病毒飄之延燒攻略
- 2021/07/13 端傳媒: 傳統市場一定是防疫破口嗎？是否能成為疫中的理想購物空間？
- 2021/06/23 臺北市醫師職業工會: COVID-19一般室內空間之通風排氣指引
- 2021/06/21 天下獨立評論: 台灣抗疫要成功，遠距工作、創新檢測是關鍵！
- 2021/05/20 關鍵評論: 紀駿輝：台灣忽略了絕大多數的新冠病毒是由無症狀感染者所傳播的
- 2021/05/14 蘋果日報：專家：預防空氣傳播疾病 未來建築設計需增加通風和空氣清淨設備
- 2021/05/14 中國時報： 氣膠成新冠肺炎主要傳播途徑 專家籲：口罩戴好、戴滿
- 2021/05/10 HEHO: COVID-19／美國官方改指南：病毒可由空氣傳播！距離6英尺也染疫
- 2021/05/10 科技新報：社交距離不夠！CDC：新冠病毒「空氣」傳播，距離 1.82 公尺也危險
- 2020/11/20 紐約時報: 從電梯按鈕到地鐵車廂，消毒真的能遏制新冠傳播嗎？
- 2021/05/24 天下獨立評論：檢、疫調、禁內用：除了呼籲大家不出門，台灣防疫更該考慮這些事
- 2021/05/23 經濟日報：家庭成員3人以上，遭新冠病毒感染的機會超過50%！重症醫生教你三招保平安
- 2021/05/23 蘋果日報：公共場所可能忽略的防疫缺口
- 2021/05/19 端傳媒：台灣新起疫情，防疫要轉守為攻 (paywall)
Lab Leak?
- 2021/07/09 New York Times: Scientists Press Case Against the Covid Lab Leak Theory
- 2021/06/25 New York Times: Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling. (The other two articles here are critical of the lab leak hypothesis, so I thought I should share one that is more supportive and Zeynep Tufekci is a careful writer, still, I personlly think she gives too short shrift to the counter-arguments in the other two pieces.)
- 2021/06/15 Foreign Policy: The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Is Short on Evidence and Long on Guesswork
- 20201/06/08 Nature: The COVID lab-leak hypothesis: what scientists do and don’t know
- 2021/06/03 Washington Post: We may never know where the virus came from. But evidence still suggests nature
- 2021/09/25 The Atlantic: The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier
- 2022/02/09 Technology Review Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy (best article on this yet, should really put things to rest, but it won’t...)