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For vaccinated people, it's no longer as critical to maintain social distance while traveling. But a mask can still lower your risk of infection.
For vaccinated people, it's no longer as critical to maintain social distance while traveling. But a mask can still lower your risk of infection.
A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants Sarah Zhang © Simoul Alva For most of 2020, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 jumped from human to human, accumulating mutations at a steady rate of two per month—not especially impressive for a virus. These mutations have largely had little effect. But recently, three distinct versions of the virus seem to have independently converged on some of the same mutations, despite being thousands of miles apart in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil. (A mutation is a genetic change; a variant is a virus with a spe...
The Atlantic The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways. Simoul Alva For most of 2020, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 jumped from human to human, accumulating mutations at a steady rate of two per month—not especially impressive for a virus. These mutations have largely had little effect. But recently, three distinct versions of the virus seem to have independently converged on some of the same mutations, despite being thousands of miles apart in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil. (A mutation is a genetic change; a...
A few stellar headlines from Dale, one of the best headline writers in the business In today's "Neighbors" column, Bob Lind shares the former editor's witty way of summarizing some unusual or surprising articles in the newspaper. Written By: Bob Lind | × One of the jobs newspaper editors have is writing headlines for stories. One of the best of them years ago was Dale Stensgaard, now of Grand Forks, who worked for The Forum in the 1970s, the Grand Forks Herald from 1981 to 2012, and now is retired. Here are a few of Dale’s headlines. The story: A comedy “roas...