Weekend Reading

  1. It is time to end the debate over school reopening.
  2. The autonomous vehicle industry has promised too much for too long, and has delivered too little.
  3. The Gates divorce is more than just tabloid fodder. A substantive alternative to my conjecture.
  4. Madly in love social influencers divorce. A quintessential fable for our times.
  5. What are no-vaxxers thinking? Excellent.
  6. Our pathetic herd immunity failure. A devastating right hook (pun intended) to Republicans from one of their own.
  7. You’re officially old if. . .

How To Accelerate Herd Immunity

Two docs, Zeynep Tufekci and 

“While we know that the single dose can protect against disease, we don’t yet know how long this immune protection will last, and at what level. However, there is no rule that says that vaccines must be boosted within weeks of each other. For measles, the booster dose is given years after the first dose. If the booster dose could be given six months or a year after the first dose, while maintaining high efficacy before the second dose, that would allow twice as many people to get vaccinated between now and later next year, accelerating herd immunity — greatly helping end the crisis phase of the pandemic in the United States.”