Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Apoora Mandavilli writes that cleaner air is essential to avoid the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Elizabeth Hlavinka discusses the severe impact of…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Honest Sorceror points out the obvious unsustainability of exponential growth in resource extraction when the mass of inanimate man-made objects already exceeds…
Today is last day on job for AHS VP Deb Gordon, highest-ranking woman in the province-wide health agency
On Aug. 18, Alberta Health Services President and CEO Mauro Chies sent a memorandum to the province-wide public health care agency’s senior managers telling them that the highest ranking woman…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Madeline Holcomb reports on new research showing that COVID-19 boosters are more effective when delivered to the same arm as previous vaccine doses.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Choi reports on new research showing that updated COVID-19 vaccines help build immunity against the Eris strain. And Keenan Sorokan reports on…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Margaret Walton-Roberts and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault highlight how plans to poach workers from abroad are bound to fall short of meeting our…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ekaterina Pesheva writes about the continued uncertainty as to the driving mechanism behind long COVID even as large numbers of people suffer…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Arianna Johnson reports on new research showing how COVID-19 can continue to affect organ function long after the lungs have healed. Philip Finkelstein…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rachel DuRose writes about the rise of the Eris COVID-19 variant, while Esther Choo notes that health care workers are bracing for another…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer La Grassa reports on the impending wave of the EG.5 COVID-19 variant, even as Phil Hahn warns that what little and belated…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hanwen Zhang highlights yet another rise in COVID cases – albeit paired with obviously-unwarranted minimizing of the risks involved. – Jessica Wildfire…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Altmann et al. examine the myriad forms of long COVID even as governments have gone out of their way to pretend…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Neil Shaw reports on the demands by Scottish doctors that their government reinstate COVID -19protections in health care facilities. And Tia Ewing reports…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Qiulu Ding and HanJun Zhao study the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the brain, including lasting effects on function and memory. Ida Mogensen…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sabina Vohra-Miller discusses the ample body of research showing how COVID-19 vaccinations produce superior health outcomes in the course of a pregnancy.…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Heidi Ledford discusses new research which is helping to identify genetic risk factors for long COVID – though the fact that new COVID-19…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Puthussery et al. study the feasibility of real-time, location-based air sampling to identify the presence of COVID-19, while Jennifer La Grassa…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Pomeroy writes that the establishment’s refusal to stop the transmission of COVID-19 has created a desperate need to account for the…