Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Moscrop writes about the need for public policy which remedies inequality rather than exacerbating it – while recognizing that we’re falling…
inequality
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anthony Fernandez-Castaneda et al. examine the long-term neurological and cognitive damage caused even by “mild” cases of COVID. Sally Cutler discusses the implications…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charlie Smith highlights how attempts to minimize the ongoing pandemic have reduced the public credibility of both government and public health officials…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Trevor Herriot and Cathy Holtslander write about the Saskatchewan Party’s climate position which can’t be treated as anything but implicit denialism. John…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shree Paradkar laments the folly of making the same mistakes over and over again throughout the course of a continuing pandemic, while…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CTV reports on Alberta Health Services’ recognition that tens of thousands of the province’s residents project to suffer from long COVID. Alex McKeen…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Wood and Mary Louise Kelly write that we still need to be managing COVID risk budgets to avoid contributing more to…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh and Carrie Tait report on Canada’s grim milestone of two million COVID cases recorded – even as the medical system braces…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu, Ed Yong and Sarah Khang write that the Omicron COVID-19 wave is seeing governments make the same familiar mistakes in an…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ben Cohen writes that we shouldn’t take a negative rapid test as license to stop taking every possible precaution to limit community…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque is rightly frustrated that we haven’t learned and applied obvious lessons about how to fight COVID after two years, while also…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dr. Katharine Smart highlights the crucial choices which need to be made to avoid a calamitous fifth COVID-19 wave, while Chelsea Nash…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt reports on the recognition among scientists around the globe that the Omicron COVID variant is almost certain to precipitate another major…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses the alarming warning indicators from our still-developing understanding of the Omicron COVID variant. Nazeem Muhajarine writes about the importance…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Lipsitch et al. examine the current state of knowledge about COVID breakthrough infections and the public health measures still needed to avoid…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Paul Tasker reports on Dr. Theresa Tam’s warning that cases of the Omicron COVID variant are set to escalate rapidly. Blake…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque reminds us that the COVID pandemic is far from over, while Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon and Albert Sun discuss the escalating…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ben Cohen writes about the expert consensus on the need for booster shots and public health measures to slow the spread of…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alejandro Jadad studies the social murder traceable to politicians’ flawed responses to COVID-19 and other known causes of sickness and death, while Tara…
COVID and Homelessness: Ten things to know
I was recently invited by the The Economics Society of Northern Alberta to speak at their 2022 Outlook Conference about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homelessness. Here’s an…