Here's an uplifting story: "Servers for Darkside were taken down by unknown actors Friday, a week after the cyber extortionist forced the shutdown of a large US oil pipeline in a ransomware… (View Post)

I would tend to agree. Has anyone reverse engineered the Indian infection graph? Assuming that the rate of underreporting has been consistent throughout, wouldn't that give us a reasonable estim… (View Post)

It gets to the point I have been making time and time again - changes to the spike protein that might increase the prospects of vaccine escape are likely to reduce its transmissibility which means th… (View Post)

Hung out inside at a Starbucks for the first time since the 2nd wave. (View Post)

Chillax on the Indian variant. From my tame evolutionary virologist: "Another intriguing tidbit: B.1.617.2 *lacks* E484Q, which was the substitution in B.1.617.1 that had everyone initially worr… (View Post)