Day 224: 9/11

Aside from the obvious analogy of a misdirected overreaction (in the wars on terror and coronavirus), 9/11 and COVID also share flight from Manhattan and an economic threat to the World Trade Center.

On the science front, the Lancet questions improbable fomite research, while others question the Lancet paper about Sputnik V:

“There are very strange patterns in the data,” Enrico Bucci, a biology professor at Temple University in the U.S. who has published an open letter highlighting the concerns told The Moscow Times.

“By strange patterns I mean there are duplicate values for different [groups of] patients … which cannot be,” Bucci said, in reference to results concerning the production of antibodies by groups of patients who had been tested with different formulations of the vaccine.

The cities and towns data for this week has a few tiny town outliers (most notably Montgomery), but also some activity in the bigger cities, in Williamstown (where Williams College is mostly in session, albeit with a reduced course load and activities), and on the Cape and islands:

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P.S. Massachusetts' cases were up a third of a percentage point again today.