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…
Health Care
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Doubleday writes that we shouldn’t accept spin from any party which attempts to minimize the unacceptable dangers of exposing children to a…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Irfan writes about the implications of COVID-19 having been allowed to spread and mutate to the point where monoclonal antibodies are ineffective…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katie Camero discusses how the belief that the COVID-19 pandemic is over (pushed by businesses and politicians eager to avoid responsibility for…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Madeleine Ngo discusses how Americans (particularly with lower incomes) have been forced to spend any nest egg they managed to build up from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Juliana Kim reports on the growing wave of public health advice recommending masking in order to limit the harm from a “tripledemic”…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lisa O’Mary discusses the sharply increased risk of severe outcomes from a second (or later) COVID -19 infection. Lauren O’Mahoney et al. examine…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Richard Smith highlights how there’s no general connection between the cost of health care and patient incomes across different models of funding and…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Angella MacEwen discusses how the Bank of Canada is fighting a class war on the side of the rich by pushing to…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Belinda Smith writes about the effect COVID-19 has on the immune system – including its making subsequent infections more severe. Karen Landman makes…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Umair Haque discusses why the 2020s are turning into a particularly bleak decade as people are buried under a perpetually larger mountain of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rong-Gong Lin Il and Luke Money report on CDC findings showing that U.S. infants under 6 months had hospitalization rates as high…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dr. Christopher Applewhaite, Kerri Coombs, Dr. Susan Kuo and Protect Our Province BC respond to the reckless attempt to declare “back to normal”…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire sets out the realities of COVID which are apparent to people on top of the flow of scientific news – even…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Anjana Ahuja highlights the risks which result from quackery treating theories about an “immunity debt” as a reason to expose children to…
A 12 Step Solution to Fix Healthcare
This thread is from Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency physician in Toronto explain how to fix healthcare in Ontario: 1. Declare a crisis 2. Scrap bill 124. 3. Give nursing…
UCP fires AHS board, names sole administrator, promises big changes fast: No such thing will happen
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered on her long-promised shakeup of Alberta Health Services yesterday, firing the 11 members of the province-wide agency’s Conservative-appointed board and naming John Cowell as its…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dave Yasvinski reports on the growing recognition that repeated COVID infections increase the likelihood of severe illness and death. And John Lorinc discusses…