Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Benjamin Veness writes that the best way to address the dangers of long COVID is to prevent spread of the underlying viruses.…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dr. Christopher Applewhaite, Kerri Coombs, Dr. Susan Kuo and Protect Our Province BC respond to the reckless attempt to declare “back to normal”…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire sets out the realities of COVID which are apparent to people on top of the flow of scientific news – even…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Anjana Ahuja highlights the risks which result from quackery treating theories about an “immunity debt” as a reason to expose children to…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tracey Harrington McCoy reports on still more research showing significant brain changes caused by long COVID. Joseph Oliver writes that sick kids…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bryan Bushard reports on research showing how football games served as COVID-19 superspreaders even when less transmissible versions were circulating in 2020. And…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Melody Schrieber examines the new face of the COVID-19 mortality burden, with older people (particular in nursing homes and long-term care) even…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maggie O’Neill discusses how new research is confirming the importance of avoiding COVID reinfections. And Edward Keenan asks what it will take…
Don’t worry about contradictions in health minister’s mandate letter – those promises aren’t meant to be kept
Never mind “less is more.” Sometimes more is less. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Jake Wright/Manning Centre/Creative Commons). Consider Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s mandate letter to Health Minister Jason Copping.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dave Yasvinski reports on the growing recognition that repeated COVID infections increase the likelihood of severe illness and death. And John Lorinc discusses…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Winnie Byanyima discusses the importance of cooperation and coordination in responding to a pandemic. But Michael Lee contrasts the consistent message from…
Dr. Deena Hinshaw is out – did the UCP appoint the Dr. Joffe the premier wanted to replace the chief medical officer of health?
As long threatened, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government yesterday announced the end of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s tenure as the province’s chief medical officer of health through the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rob Stein discusses the CDC’s recognition that new, more evasive COVID strains are becoming dominant in the U.S. Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Manina Etter et al. study the causes of neurological damages arising out of COVID-19. And Roni Caryn Rabin reports on the recent…
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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber report on the recognition by economists that COVID-19 continues to be a mass disabling event – even as…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the looming prospect that COVID-19 infections will cause ongoing damage by exhausting people’s immunity, while Betsy Ladyzhets writes about…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erin Prater reports on research showing how long COVID may be traced to excessive pruning of connections in the brain. Faye Flam highlights…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on…