public health

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Australia’s Inquiry into Long COVID has produced a report (PDF) confirming the obvious needs both to limit the continued spread of COVID-19,…

Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Trevor Hancock discusses the need to treat the economy as a means to human well-being, rather than an end worth sacrificing our health…

Saturday Afternoon Links

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jenna Cartusciello examines the connections between COVID-19 and gastrointestinal issues as yet another poorly-studied and potentially long-lasting effect of infection with a disease…

Friday Afternoon Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln and Anne Sosin discuss the lack of sustained improvement in the social conditions which exacerbated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Evelyn Lazare discusses how the refusal of the powers that be to act to mitigate an ongoing pandemic is only ensuring that its…

Tuesday Afternoon Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research linking COVID-19 to subsequent sleep disturbances and dyspnea. And Linda Geddes reports on findings showing that a…

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…

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Fulton discusses the lessons we should be learning from the response to COVID-19 in preparing for the next pandemic. Richard Payerchin highlights…

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…

Thursday Afternoon Links

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lisa Schnirring reports on new research showing how infection with COVID-19 tends to lead to extended sick leave, while Helen Twohig et…

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – IOS Press discusses new research showing that COVID-19 accelerates the cognitive decline in people already living with dementia. F. Perry Wilson examines how…

Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – The John Snow Project discusses how government minimization of the ongoing risk of COVID-19 – including the removal of what few policies remained…

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…

Tuesday Afternoon Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Carrie Arnold examines our current state of knowledge about the prevalence and effects of long COVID. Tanya Lewis discusses the particularly acute…

Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Nicole Grether writes about the hundreds of thousands of young people orphaned by COVID-19 in the U.S. alone, while Kyodo News reports on…

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