Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

In a ranking of the effectiveness of national responses to Covid-19, the US ranks *94th out of 98* in the world. #1 New Zealand's score is 94.4 while the US score is just 17.3. A massive failure. [interactives.lowyinstitute.org]

Across the globe, tests are being conducted to determine if dogs can be effective in screening people for Covid-19. "Early experiments appear to demonstrate high levels of accuracy by the sniffer dogs..." [theatlantic.com]

Here's what we should do as the new Covid-19 variants bear down on us. I cannot describe how SO VERY FRUSTRATING it is to read articles like this that recommend doing all the things we should have been doing all along. [nytimes.com]

A pretty good explainer about what's happening with the GameStop stock situation. "How a horde of Redditors are destroying various hedge funds and becoming rich." [vice.com]

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