Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Shiloh Payne reports on new numbers from the World Health Organization showing that COVID-19 is responsible for nearly 15 million excess deaths around…
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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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Greg Iacurci discusses how long COVID is set to cause trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S.’ economy (to say nothing of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cate Swannell discusses how research showing the multitude of harms which can result from COVID-19 infection. Calixto Machado-Curbelo, Joel Gutiérrez-Gil and Alina González-Quevedo…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tori Cowger et al. study how the presence or absence of mandatory masking policies affects the number of COVID-19 cases among students…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alvin Chang charts some of the grim realities of long COVID which is being allowed to disable people with little to no restraint.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Evan Xu, Yan Xie and Ziyad Al-Aly study the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19, finding elevated risks of numerous kinds of neurological…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln writes about the needless harm caused by public health messaging about being people being “tired” of pandemic precautions which many (if…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – CBC reports that Ontario transit is the latest major public service being paralyzed by the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19. And Ishani Desai…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rhythm Sachdeva reports on research which has documented the effectiveness of COVID-19 testing in advance of events (just in time for governments to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand’s continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – SBS News reports on the WHO’s warning that not only is the COVID-19 pandemic far from over, but cases are spiking globally. And…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devi Sridhar writes that a responsible plan for the impending COVID wave would involve masking, improved ventilation, booster shots and a plan for…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board reminds us of the continued choice between taking reasonable precautions to minimize the damage from continued…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Judy Melinek notes that the physical effects of long COVID include irreversible organ damage, while Rob Chaney discusses its devastating impact on people’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Pam Belluck reports on a new study showing that people who weren’t initially hospitalized for COVID make up over three-quarters of the…
Make Big Oil Care by Cutting Profits
We’ve heard lots of big claims from oil companies about their commitment to sustainable energy production, but those are all words. Their actions are still to extract fossil fuels which…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mickey Djuric writes about the rising COVID-19 hospitalization numbers driven by unvaccinated people – but lest anybody treat past shots as an excuse…
Reducing Traffic Pollution Greatly Increases Health
It’s well known that vehicular traffic is deadly no matter where it is and how much of it exists. Even with all the evidence cities in North America put cars…