This and that for your Thursday reading. – Evan Xu, Yan Xie and Ziyad Al-Aly study the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19, finding elevated risks of numerous kinds of neurological disorders even following mild initial infections. – Crawford Kilian discusses the need for a prosocial revolution to deal with COVID
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Alpert Reyes and Aida Ylanan discuss COVID’s continued toll in lives and health even as the people in power seek to pretend it’s over with, while Jamie Ducharme points out the growing spread of long COVID as an unprecedented mass disabling event. And
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Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Jim Naureckas discusses the absurdity of the New York Times (among other outlets) criticizing the idea of saving millions of lives from COVID rather than choosing to act in denial of it. Paige Ouimet points out the widespread long-term damage long COVID is
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I’m writing an open access e-textbook on homelessness. Chapter 2, focused on theory, has just been published. The full chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Falvo-Chapter-2-Theory-and-homelessness-19aug2022.pdf A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/theory-and-homelessness%ef%bf%bc/ A French version of the ‘top 10’ overview can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/theorie-et-itinerance/ All
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachel Aiello reports on Health Canada’s approval of COVID booster vaccines targeted at the Omicron variants. And Andrew Romano discusses the hope that the updated vaccines will result in a turning point in combating COVID – though getting enough people vaccinated to
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kaylyn Whibbs reports on the entirely justified concerns of parents whose children have been unable to receive a COVID booster due to provincial neglect. And Dana Smith discusses how polio has managed to make a resurgence in the U.S. as the same
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Assorted content to start your week. – Dayne Patterson reports that what little data Saskatchewan residents have to manage to risk of COVID is showing higher levels than have been seen in months. Sophia Tan et al. find that even while breakthrough COVID infections have escalated, prior vaccination (and particularly
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonny Thomson writes about the philosophy of “lagom” as an alternative to perpetually demanding more. But Matt Gurney notes that on a rapidaly warming planet, the former luxury of air conditioning is becoming a necessity for far more people – even if
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol examines the growing body of knowledge about long COVID – and the need to use that awareness to develop the means to mitigate it. Lola Mayor reports on the example of one 10-year-old struggling to walk and talk as a horrifying
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Topol writes that the only sensible response to the increased death and sickness from COVID-19 is to dedicate our efforts to fully containing it. And Jessica Nelson reports on research from the University of Alberta showing the massive health care costs
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Quammen writes about the ongoing race between scientific discovery and an evolving coronavirus. And Heidi Sheehan reports on new research showing a similarity between long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome based on the inability of receptors to properly receive calcium. –
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Maggie Mills discusses how an antisocial public health policy in the midst of an ongoing pandemic is producing a disastrous human cost (particularly for vulnerable people), while Pamela Heaven reports on CIBC research showing that even the economy to which people are being
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matthew Sitman writes about the fundamentally anti-social values being pushed by U.S. Republicans and their right-wing cousins – as well as the desperate need for pushback from progressives who actually value communities and the people who live in them. Gregg Gonsalves writes that
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Gregory reports on new research showing that tens of millions of adults may already be facing long-term loss of smell and/or taste as a result of COVID even as further waves are allowing to run rampant. And Kevin Woodward implores us
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand’s continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody should be bragging about continuing to work through a disease which requires rest to maximize one’s recovery. – Peter Zimonjic
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Economist reports on new research estimating that COVID-19 vaccines saved 20 million lives in their first year of availability – though that reality makes it all the more galling that there’s been so little progress both in ensuring greater availability of
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chas Danner writes about the arrival of the BA.5 COVID-19 surge in the U.S. Nora Loreto writes about the thousands of Canadians who died of COVID acquired in hospitals – and the many people who continue to get sick from it. Kenyon Wallace and
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Stanford laments the likelihood that we’re headed for a self-inflicted recession in the name of an arbitrary inflation target. – Acey Rowe talks to about the Craig Desson about the mechanisms used to perpetuate old wealth. And Rupert Neate writes about
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jon Henley writes that COVID is surging across Europe as governments and people alike ignore desperate warnings not to let their guard down. And Eric Topol writes about the reality that reinfection produces even worse outcomes than initial exposure – even as governments
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