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Population immunity is "absolutely plausible" if enough individuals are vaccinated from COVID, according to Fauci

Population immunity is “absolutely plausible” if enough individuals are vaccinated from COVID, according to Fauci

  Anthony Fauci: “It is ‘entirely conceivable, and likely, as a matter of fact,’ that the country could reach a level of population immunity where the virus isn’t ‘dominating’ people’s lives anymore.” “For that level of vaccinations,” Fauci said, “we first need to get to the 50 million or so people who are eligible to …

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Women who are self-conscious about their appearance believe their partners are less interested in them, resulting in less pleasant relationships.

Women who are self-conscious about their appearance believe their partners are less interested in them, resulting in less pleasant relationships.

  Women who thought themselves as less attractive were more likely to think their partners didn’t like them as much, which made them less satisfied with their relationships and had lower sexual enjoyment. Both people in the couple filled out questionnaires about how happy they were with their bodies and how happy they were with …

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A uncommon rabbit sickness has wiped out Edmonton's syphilitic graveyard rabbits.

A uncommon rabbit sickness has wiped out Edmonton’s syphilitic graveyard rabbits.

The syphilitic bunnies at an Edmonton cemetery have been killed off by a very rare rabbit disease. Few, if any, are still alive. “It was a very viral virus that rapidly ran through the colony and killed essentially all the feral domestic rabbits,” Margo Pybus, a wildlife disease expert at the University of Alberta, said …

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A huge millipede fossil the size of a car has been discovered on a beach in northern England.

A huge millipede fossil the size of a car has been discovered on a beach in northern England.

  The fossil is made up of the bones of a creature called Arthropleura, which lived 326 million years ago. This is more than 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs. It shows that Arthropleura was the biggest invertebrate animal ever found. It was bigger than the ancient sea scorpions that were the previous …

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