Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katherine Wu warns about the consequences of the powers that be deciding that people will be subjected to repeated COVID-19 infections. And Saba…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jennifer Hulme discusses how long COVID is causing devastating long-term effects on women in particular, with little apparent prospect of treatment to improve…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sara Reardon discusses new research showing that vaccination has only a limited effect on the prevalance of long COVID among people who…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aekkachai Tuekprakhon et al. study how the Omicron COVID-19 subvariants are evading both previous immunity and existing treatments. And Zak Vescera reports on…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nicola Davis reports on new research showing that the effects of long COVID include sustained damage to organs including the heart, lungs…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Associated Press reports on Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Mary Papenfuss discusses how people living…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Irelyne Lavery reports on the increasing number of Canadians needing medical attention for the flu as COVID-related protections have been scrapped. And Wallace…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong discusses how we may have created a “pandemicine” era by fundamentally changing how viruses are able to mutate and spread. The…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Pam Belluck reports on a new study showing that people who weren’t initially hospitalized for COVID make up over three-quarters of the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ross Barkan takes stock of the reality that the U.S. has allowed a million people to die of a disease whose transmission could…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Xue Cao et al. find that infection with COVID-19 produces accelerated physical aging among its other alarming effects, while Jan Hennigs et…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mark Kline warns against accepting continuing denialism about the impact of COVID-19 on children. Andre Picard discusses Canada’s grim milestone of 40,000 (reported)…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Judy Melinek offers a coroner’s perspective on the large number of ways in which COVID infection can result in death or severe…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Phil Tank offers a reminder that Saskatchewan’s citizens shouldn’t follow the lead of its government in wrongly pretending the COVID-19 pandemic is over.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Danny Halpin reports on new research showing that people who have suffered from long COVID are at far greater risk of blood…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Yan Wang et al. examine the feasibility of a zero COVID policy, and find that the even the development of the Omicron…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Vaibhav Upadhyay and Krishna Mallela discuss the development of new COVID-19 vaccines, and the hope that they’ll offer more protection as variants continue…
Canada’s climate scorecard: “highly insufficient”
Checking the various international climate performance indices for Canada’s rankings is a depressing business. Consider for example the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The CCPI is compiled annually by three…