Reading archive 2021-01-28

Time to double or upgrade masks as coronavirus variants emerge, experts say: Better face coverings are needed to curb more-transmissible strains as vaccine rollout is underway, they say

What you need to know about GameStop’s stock price chaos: Here’s how ordinary investors, spurred on by a Reddit message board, took on the big Wall Street funds and sent share prices soaring for the video game retailer

Democrats consider one-week impeachment trial, censure resolution after GOP signals likely acquittal of Trump

A reporter tried to ask Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about her false claims. The journalist was threatened with arrest.

Most nursing home workers don’t want the vaccine. Here’s what facilities are doing about it.

Coronavirus variant sweeps South Africa, exhibiting ‘terrifying’ dominance

Denmark is sequencing all coronavirus samples and has an alarming view of the U.K. variant

The Amazonian city that hatched the Brazil variant has been crushed by it - "As viruses course through a population, they inevitably mutate, although most such genetic changes are functionally insignificant. The coronavirus has spawned countless variants around the world. But P.1 — along with variants found in South Africa and Britain — is provoking particular concern.

Not only does it have a spike protein mutation that could lead to a higher infection rate, it possesses what’s called an “escape mutation.” Also found in the South Africa variant, the mutation, known as E484k, could help it evade coronavirus antibodies.