Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Zeynep Tufecki writes about the deadly delay in recognizing the reality that COVID-19 spreads largely through aerosol transmission. Elliot Hannon reports on…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Graham points out that what’s being labeled “vaccine hesitancy” reflects little more than abject denial about the realities of a deadly disease.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mickey Djuric reports on the growing surgical backlog resulting from the Moe government’s willingness to let COVID-19 tear through Saskatchewan’s health care system.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Leyland Cecco discusses how a combination of feckless government and decades of carefully-stoked anti-science sentiment has turned Alberta into North America’s COVID-19…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoora Mandavilli warns about the looming prospect that the U.S. will be unable to reach herd immunity through vaccination due to right-wing…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emma Paling discusses the reasons why repeated warnings about Canada’s third wave of the coronavirus went largely unanswered. And Rachel Bergen reports on…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – A group of doctors and scientists offers an open letter calling for a strategy of maximum COVID-19 suppression. – Matt Gurney writes about…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey Lazarus, Devi Sridhar and Samantha Vanderslott examine how strategies aimed at eradicating…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls for us to learn from over a year’s worth of experience with COVID-19 and guard against aerosol spread to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Warick reports on how the lack of enforcement of public health rules has emboldened anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers to impose their disregard for…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Paul Tasker reports on new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada showing how public health measures have slowed the transmission…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rich Mendes reports on new research showing that the longstanding focus on physical distance as a means of avoiding the indoor transmission…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Fahad Razak, David Naylor and Arthur Slutsky discuss how it’s not too late to pull our health care system back from the brink…
Musings on Viruses and Evolution
One has to wonder how creationists can maintain their beliefs during a pandemic where the virus is clearly evolving to improve its ability to infect people and avoid immune system…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inability of simplistic right-wing populism to respond to any complex problem. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the complete lack of leadership which has led to catastrophic public health results in Ontario, while Haley Steinberg talks…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls out the premiers who continue to spout talking points about “balance” while failing utterly to control the spread of deadly…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Lozinski discusses the confusing and conflicting messages from Scott Moe which are making it difficult for well-intentioned residents to know what…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Justin Ling writes that the third wave of COVID currently swamping conservative-run provinces can be traced back directly to our leaders’ refusal to…
Ontario’s COVID-19 Disaster in Five Words
The Ontario government would like to blame the behaviour of Ontario’s citizens for this disaster implying somehow we are so much worse than the citizens of other countries, and even…