Tue. 05/24 - Monkeypox: How Concerned Should We Be?

Everything you need to know about monkeypox––what is it, how is it spread, and how concerned should we be? Plus, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is returning to Earth on Wednesday, after just a few hiccups on its first successful trip to the ISS. And Coca-Cola is introducing new bottle caps that you can’t remove from the bottle.

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Links:

• Why monkeypox isn't like Covid-19 (Vox)
• Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry? (NPR)
• The symptoms and causes of monkeypox infections, which CDC calls an 'emerging issue' (NBC News)
• U.S. monkeypox case reported, as Spain, Portugal report infections in growing outbreak (STAT)
• Monkeypox global case tracker (Global.health) 
• Monkeypox (WHO)
• Spread prediction from modeling expert (Thomas House, Twitter)
• Thread on transmission and vaccines (Bill Hanage, Twitter) 
• The Monkeypox Virus Is Affecting Queer Men, but Has Nothing to Do With Being Queer (them)
• Monkeypox: UNAIDS 'concerned' about stigmatizing language against LGTBI people (United Nations)
• Unfair monkeypox labeling must stop before our image goes from Curious George to Typhoid Mary (USA Today)
• How to watch Starliner capsule return to Earth on Wednesday (Digital Trends)
• Boeing Starliner problems go beyond thrusters (Washington Post)
• Watch the Starliner capsule live (NASA)
• Coke's new bottle cap doesn't come off (CNN)
• Coca-Cola's attached bottle cap is rock bottom of hokey greenwashing (TechCrunch)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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