Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emmett Macfarlane discusses how the stakes in Alberta’s election are no less than democracy and the rule of law – as Danielle Smith…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes about the Parkland Institute’s research showing how privatization has undermined Alberta’s health care system. And Mitchell Thompson warns that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matthew Oliver, Mark Ungrin and Joe Vipond write about the overwhelming evidence that masks offer protection from airborne viruses – even as…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Beth Blauer writes about the continuing need for accurate and timely data about COVID-19 as it represent an ongoing threat. And Rachel Bergmans…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gregg Gonsalves writes that rather than spurring the development of more effective public health mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic has instead seen massive…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ewen Callaway writes about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic – with both a high baseline of cases, and frequent “wavelets” in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tara Kiran et al. examine the use of virtual care in Ontario, and find no evidence to support the anti-public-health claim that…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kenyon Wallace writes that the only reason we’re not observing large COVID waves is that we’ve been pushed to accept a perpetual…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – The University of Denver examines how prior infection with COVID-19 produces effects comparable to a traumatic brain injury in worsening the effects of…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig calls out the Ford PCs for making it even more difficult to hold corporate health care operators to account for sub-par…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque writes about the implications of facing a deliberate decline in both environmental and economic well-being for the sole purpose of facilitating…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hayden Klein reports on new research suggesting a connection between COVID-19 infection and increased cancer rates (particularly in younger people). And the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The John Snow Project calls out the dangers of labeling COVID-19 infection as an immune-boosting mechanism, rather than an unequivocal harm to individual…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Al Shaw, Irena Hwang and Caroline Chen discuss how forest loss and changing interactions between people and wildlife could be the trigger for…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rosemary Boyton and Daniel Altman discuss how any immunity from prior COVID-19 infection is waning as time passes and ever-changing variants circulate…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Camille Bains reports on Dr. Mona Nemer’s warning that long COVID represents a mass disabling event with potentially devastating social and economic consequences.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Luke Savage points out that even biased right-wing polling is finding broad support for stronger social programs and limitations on corporate domination…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tarun Sai Lomte discusses new research on the connection between structural brain changes and fatigue associated with long COVID. And Eric Topol examines…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Reinhart discusses the importance of approaching public health from a collective perspective, rather than presuming health is simply a matter of…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kimberly Atkins Stohr discusses her experience with long COVID – along with the reality that others have suffered far worse when they’ve…