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2/ According to @RetractionWatch, this is the most highly cited retracted paper ever 
But picked up briefly in Pakistan and then over Gulf on uncensored @ADSBexchange, where it showed as N4466A, registered to Aviation Specialties Inc. 
2/ The Delta variant should pose little threat if you're fully vaccinated, but could still cause deadly surges in places where many people have shunned #COVID19 vaccines. That puts the South and parts of rural America at risk.
Statement from @americnhumanist: "Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated a history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values."
“[W]e think that interval actually what is probably associated with the increased efficacy that we’re seeing for that low-dose standard-dose group just because many of those participants were in the longer interval group.” - Tonya Villafana, AstraZeneca
2/ Doses given per 100 people by US state
2/ This chart shows daily case numbers for the US as a whole. The current surge isn't really a "third wave" because #COVID19 transmission never went down to low levels like it did in European countries now experiencing a genuine second wave.
2/ This week's rise in #COVID19 deaths was driven in part (but not entirely) by Monday spike due to change in reporting in Texas, which switched to working from death certificates rather than reporting from local health authorities. Texas daily death counts from @nytimes data: 
2/ Mask wearing and the outside setting may have helped, but experts warned not to leap to the conclusion that all outside gatherings are safe