Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marianne Guenot reports on a World Health Organization-backed report confirming that political leaders could have averted the spread of COVID-19, but failed…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Smart compares Canada’s fiscal response to the COVID crisis to the reaction to previous recessions – finding that benefits for people are…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the need for public health planning to reflect the predictable reactions of people whose compliance affects the viability of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Duncan Cameron discusses how right-wing nationalism is contributing to the destruction of our planet and the exploitation of people. Don Braid highlights how…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied…
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…
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…