Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noushin Ziafati reports on the continuing challenges facing people suffering from long COVID – particularly as governments attempt to pretend the pandemic which…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Woolf examines the inescapable connection between political choices and avoidable COVID-19 deaths between U.S. states. And Christopher Blackwell discusses how the pandemic…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kit Yates discusses how the lifting of COVID-19 public health protections in the UK has predictably precipitated another wave of infections. Natalie…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Caroline Chen discusses the reasons why we’re still waiting for COVID vaccines for children under 5 – leaving the people least able to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Terry Gross discusses how COVID has brought some needed attention to other chronic illnesses. But Sarah Trick writes that the reckless elimination…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarah Bartsch et al. study the costs and benefits of face mask use, and conclude that even without factoring in improvements to public…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong rightly questions how the U.S. (like Canada) has come to see a large number of preventable COVID-19 deaths as normal.…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – James Tapper reports on the UK’s soaring rates of long-term illness caused by COVID-19, while Tara Madden writes about the utter uselessness…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kent Sepkowitz examines the many and severe symptoms of COVID-19 which are emerging long after initial infections have been treated as “mild”. –…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Reuters reports on research showing that public health measures implemented in response to COVID-19 also saved hundreds of thousands of lives by limiting…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Phil Tank calls out the Moe government for concluding that Saskatchewan’s citizens should be deprived of the information we need to make…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Carly Weeks examines why so many Canadian children still haven’t been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. John Loeppky asks that we not eliminate the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alexandra Hutzler reports that even a majority of Americans seeing mask mandates lifted aren’t prepared to buy the line that it’s safe to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jonathan Koltai et al. study the mental health effects of COVID vaccination – finding a justified decrease in stress among people who have…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sabrina Eliason, Tehseen Ladha and Sam Wong highlight how the elimination of public health protections puts children at particular risk. And CBC…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Doug Cuthand writes that falsely pretending we’re “back to normal” in the midst of a pandemic does nothing but put people at needless…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alexander Quon reports on the politicization of Saskatchewan’s COVID policy in the summer of 2021, with political staffers and commercial interests winning…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yasmin Tayag discusses the progress being made in determining how long COVID is caused – though the only point that appears beyond dispute…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Topol charts how vaccines to date have continued to provide essential protection against the Omicron COVID variant, even as people with…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Carvin, Kurt Phillips and Amarnath Amarasingam discuss how anti-vaxx themes in Canada are being pushed and used by the fascist right.…