Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

09:57

This is really fun: Blob Opera. "Play four voices with the help of machine learning." [artsandculture.google.com]

Covid Trial Dash: search for Covid-19 vaccine trials to participate in near you. [coviddash.org]

Debunking false claims about Covid-19 deaths. "A larger share of Americans died in the 1st 9 months of 2020 than in any of past 50 yrs" and (after cancer & heart disease) Covid-19 was the 3rd leading cause of death in the US this year. [twitter.com]

"As wealthy governments race to lock in supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, nearly a quarter of the world's population — mostly in low and middle-income countries — will not have access to a shot until 2022." [statnews.com]

Time magazine got theirs wrong but the Financial Times didn't: BioNTech's Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci are the FT People of the Year for the development of a Covid-19 vaccine in just 11 months. [ft.com]

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