Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kelsey Piper writes about the U.S.’ memory-holing of the successes of a vaccine program which resulted in exceptionally quick development and distribution…
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Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The World Health Organization has updated its guidelines for COVID-19 prevention and response – including recommendations for masking and isolation periods even when…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Courtney Shea interviews Colin Furness about the combination of immunity theft and negligent public health messaging that’s resulting in widespread avoidable illness,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Oscar Grenfell discusses how Australia is among the countries which has seen a declining life expectancy due to COVID-19 – with a distinct…
Impasse: Ottawa unlikely to fork over billions to make health care better if Conservative premiers insist on using the cash to make it worse
What did Alberta Premier Danielle Smith mean Tuesday in Calgary when she said of her plans for health care that “we’re just going to keep on making … incremental changes;…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chinta Sidharthan discusses new research on COVID-19 reinfections, showing that subsequent infections tend to produce similar immediate effects to a first one but…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erin Durkin writes about the failure of the U.S.’ government to deal with the growing impact of long COVID – and the likelihood…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nicholas Frew reports on the wholly-unsurprising news that the XBB.1.5 COVID-19 variant mad its way into Saskatchewan before the holidays with zero…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tisse Wijeratne et al. discuss what we know – and have yet to discover – about long COVID’s effects on our brains three…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wildfire discusses how the U.S. and Canada are following the UK’s healthcare collapse due to a combination of public health negligence and…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brendan Crabbe and Mike Toole discuss how COVID-19 has been able to spread and evolve due to people’s willingness to live dangerously,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zhenguo Nie, Yunzhi Chen and Meifeng Deng study the relative merits of COVID precautions, finding upward ventilation and masking to be the most…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your New Year’s reading. – Bartley Kives reports on the most deadly year of the COVID-19 pandemic yet. And the BBC reports on the admonition that…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Allison Maher et al. study how COVID-19 causes fundamental changes to a person’s immune system, resulting in far greater vulnerability to other infections.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Teresa Wright sets out the wish list of ER doctors who have been dealing with avoidable COVID waves for years. Tiffany Hsu discusses…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Robert Reich discusses the dangers of relying on – and indeed building a political and economic system to favour – the social…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Phil Tank writes that the holidays will be anything but happy for families dealing with long COVID due to the Moe government’s choice…
Premier Smith to nurses and doctors: Forget about measures to mitigate respiratory disease spread, the UCP is for ‘choice’
On Tuesday, both the United Nurses of Alberta and the Alberta Medical Association’s Section of Emergency Medicine sent letters to Chief Medical Officer of Health Mark Joffe urging him to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk helpfully lists some of the most important facts which people need to keep in mind in evaluating COVID-19 risks (and…