This past Friday was the second anniversary of the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. but supporters of former president Donald Trump. By this point we know the…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nicholas Frew reports on the wholly-unsurprising news that the XBB.1.5 COVID-19 variant mad its way into Saskatchewan before the holidays with zero…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tisse Wijeratne et al. discuss what we know – and have yet to discover – about long COVID’s effects on our brains three…
The Paper Kites – Give Me Your Fire, Give Me Your Rain
Assorted content to end your week. – David Wallace-Wells examines a few of the false narratives which are limiting our response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah Wulf Hanson and…
Jordan Peterson is running about making a big fuss because his social media antics have garnered the attention of the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO). "I won't comply!", he…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk examines what we know about – and what we should be doing in response to – the Kraken COVID-19 variant…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wildfire discusses how the U.S. and Canada are following the UK’s healthcare collapse due to a combination of public health negligence and…
Surrounded cats.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brendan Crabbe and Mike Toole discuss how COVID-19 has been able to spread and evolve due to people’s willingness to live dangerously,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zhenguo Nie, Yunzhi Chen and Meifeng Deng study the relative merits of COVID precautions, finding upward ventilation and masking to be the most…
This and that for your New Year’s reading. – Bartley Kives reports on the most deadly year of the COVID-19 pandemic yet. And the BBC reports on the admonition that…
Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Allison Maher et al. study how COVID-19 causes fundamental changes to a person’s immune system, resulting in far greater vulnerability to other infections.…
Stoto – Her
Assorted content to end your week. – Teresa Wright sets out the wish list of ER doctors who have been dealing with avoidable COVID waves for years. Tiffany Hsu discusses…
So, yesterday, a police officer in Ontario was killed. Inevitably, we get cries of “this could have been prevented”, largely on the basis that one of the accused in the…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Frieden offers a primer on what we know about long COVID – and what we should be doing to avoid it.…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zaina Hamza discusses new research showing how COVID-19 fatalities hit younger people and caused more loss of expected years of life in the…
Cuddly cats.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Helen Branswell examines what experts were and weren’t able to anticipate about the COVID-19 pandemic – with the voluntary panic-neglect cycle looking…
