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 * [The variability of critical bed numbers in Europe](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00134-012-2627-8), a somewhat detailed, if outdated, source of information on ICU and "acute care" beds (both needed to treat serious COVID-19 patients) over the European Union
 * [Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-CoV-2](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347v1), a preprint suggesting that cats can sustain transmission of the virus
 * [A call to honesty in pandemic modelling](https://medium.com/@wpegden/a-call-to-honesty-in-pandemic-modeling-5c156686a64b), a reminder that disease does come back after lockdowns are lifted
-* [Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v1), an April 30 preprint highlighting how a mutated form of the virus appears to be circulating much faster and taking over the original strain in Europe and elsewhere
+* [Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v1), an April 30 preprint highlighting how a mutated form of the virus appears to be circulating much faster and taking over the original strain in Europe and elsewhere, although an [article on ArsTechnica](https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/draft-study-conclusions-on-sars-cov-2-mutation-overstep-data-grab-headlines/) highlights various issues other researchers have raised with this paper 
 * [Humoral immune response and prolonged PCR positivity in a cohort of 1343 SARS-CoV 2 patients in the New York City region](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.30.20085613v1), a preprint showing that nearly all confirmed patients had developed antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
 
 ## Therapeutics and vaccines