Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Dubois reports on the growing body of research showing that the risk of COVID-19 reinfection is worsening due to the Omicron variants.…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tim Requarth writes about the U.S.’ appalling number of COVID orphans who have lost caregivers due to failures in public health policy…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Rohan Smith reports on new research showing how little of the coronavirus needs to be passed from one person to another to result…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how the pandemic denial of Boris Johnson, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and others is only ensuring that more people…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Marshall offers a reminder that even where it hasn’t been able to achieve its ideal goal, a zero-COVID strategy has produced far…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ezra Cheung reports on research showing the increasing severity of the Omicron BA.2 variant for children in Hong Kong, while David Axe…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Star’s editorial board weighs in on the reality that wishful thinking isn’t a substitute for responsible public health measures as another COVID…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicola Davis writes about the large number of people getting reinfected with COVID in the UK, while Andrew Gregory reports on new research…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Phil Tank writes that the Saskatchewan Party has only reluctantly held off on eliminating even what little information it still provided the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen report on the latest COVID-19 wave and its direct connection to the elimination of public health protections. Eric…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Kleczkowski examines the effectiveness of COVID-19 interventions two years into the pandemic, while noting the importance of applying the precautionary principle…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Laura Spinney offers a reminder that the few places which actually made an effort at a COVID Zero strategy have fared far better…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Carly Weeks reports on the work being done to begin to understand and treat long COVID, while Erika Edwards reports on the profiteers…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Wallace-Wells examines the massive global toll of excess deaths from COVID-19 (likely far exceeding even the already-alarming official counts). Nele Brusselaers et…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that another U.S. COVID wave may severely test what’s already proven to be an alarming willingness to accept injury…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dayne Patterson discusses the continued recognition among doctors that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over (and indeed approaching another particularly dangerous phase).…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Crawford Killian writes about the dangers of becoming unduly relaxed about a new COVID wave (with particular reference to South Korea’s experience).…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque discusses how the corporate-driven surrender to COVID – like so many of the choices which value profit over well-being – reflects…