/sci/ - Science & Math

Are there any good review sites or publications that talk about good medical books? Amazon's search is shit and I enjoy reading books about diagnostics, but there isn't much out there.

Is it theoretically possible for engineered bacteria to break down plastic into simple, digestible carbons as quickly as they break down things like sugar and starch?

So when the Johnson and Johnson vaccine comes out- Which the USA has supposedly bought a hundred million doses of- doesn't that effectively mean the pandemic would be over within a few weeks?
It's a one dose vaccine. If we gave it to everyone over 65 (54,000,000 people) hospitalizations and deaths would drop by about 80,000,000 and we'd still have millions and millions of doses left for people that want them. That's ignoring the millions of people that have already gotten the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.

Does the first dose of the Moderna/Pfizer vaccine provide any level of immunity, or are we unlikely to see any results of reduced infection rates until a month after someone gets the vaccine?
For instance, the USA has injected over 2% of people now. Let's assume these people all will have gotten their second dose by the end of January, and that the antibody response is functional in all of them. Is that the point at which the death rate could start being reduced, especially if that 2% was targeted at people living in nursing homes who make up almost 40% of deaths?

I've read that the mRNA vaccines for Sars-Cov-2 were developed in just two days after the virus was sequenced.
Does this open up the possibility for other viruses having mRNA vaccines developed quickly? HIV? Herpes?

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Is the time it takes for a photon to travel the length of the Planck constant the smallest amount of time allowed by our current understanding of physics?