Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

09:57

Interesting fact about the 1918 pandemic: "Doctors then hadn't even figured out that influenza was caused by a virus." That discovery didn't happen until the 1930s. [theatlantic.com]

The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum will reopen in NYC on June 10 and admission to the museum will be free through October 31. [cooperhewitt.org]

"minion skin" [twitter.com]

Basic research on the mouse hepatitis virus (a coronavirus) begun in the 1980s proved essential to understanding & combating SARS-CoV-2 when it appeared in late 2019. [covid19prequels.com]

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