Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

As the US death toll passes 300,000, families whose loved ones have died from Covid-19 are becoming more explicit in their obituaries about the circumstances of their deaths and the need for their fellow Americans to take the pandemic seriously. [nytimes.com]

The Pfizer & Moderna Covid-19 vaccine results indicate that a single dose might be highly effective in curbing infection. Here @zeynep muses about the pros (getting more ppl vaccinated quicker) and cons (not enough data yet) of single dosing. [twitter.com]

Kim Stanley Robinson: "The solution here is simply to consider [capturing CO2 out of the air] a public utility creating a public good, like roads, national defense, fresh water, or sewage disposal — and pay for it as such." [bloomberg.com]

From Nature: 10 remarkable scientific discoveries made in 2020. [nature.com]

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