Vintage Weird Vintage instructions for making a smoker's influenza mask Mark Frauenfelder

Comics The Center for Disease Control's realistic new comic about swine flu and a state fair David Pescovitz

coronavirus A majority of Americans wouldn't rush to get a Covid-19 vaccination, poll finds Carla Sinclair

Science Fauci expects COVID-19 vaccine by end of the year, 100 million doses to be ready in the US David Pescovitz

health That time in 2005 when junior senator Barack Obama argued for 'decisive action to prevent a pandemic' Xeni Jardin

we have always been at war with eurasia Dr Drew invoked copyright laws to scare people from sharing video of his coronavirus comments Mark Frauenfelder

music The 'Super Bad Transmittable Contagious Awful Virus' song, a parody of 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!' Xeni Jardin

obituaries RIP, Bill Rieflin, drummer for King Crimson, KMFDM, Swans, NIN, Ministry, Pigface, and many others Gareth Branwyn

News CDC broadens coronavirus testing guidelines Xeni Jardin

contagion FDA warns Purell to back off hand sanitizer germ-killing claims Rob Beschizza

Weird "China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences" David Pescovitz

yes they're concentration camps On the history of concentration camps, and what Trump's doing on the border Xeni Jardin

picks No, anti-vaccine hysteria didn't emerge from grassroots. This rich NYC couple funded it. Xeni Jardin

illness Cold vaccine tests show promise Mark Frauenfelder

anti-vaxxers When teen defies anti-vax parents and gets shots, his mom says it's a "slap in the face" Carla Sinclair

google Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they've invented a mind-control ray Cory Doctorow

china USDA approves shipping slaughtered chicken to China and back, says you can eat it Jason Weisberger

security Airport "security" trays are filthy reservoirs of infectious agents Cory Doctorow