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Priority letter: the Omicron variant

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Social Distancing of Bees Against Infectious Disease

Bees use some of the same strategies that we do to try and protect themselves against infectious disease. Study from researches an versity of cesari in sardinia, an island in italy,. They found that bees actually implement their own form of lock downs when their hive is under threat of infection. So wait aminute. What are the kind of threats that social distancing would help with?

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