Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Belen Fernandez discusses how the reckless normalization of masklessness even in particularly dangerous portions of a pandemic is leading to avoidable suffering…
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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…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olivia Bowden and May Warren discuss the importance of continuing to wear masks even when it’s no longer mandated. And Lisa Schick reports…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ryan Tumulty reports on Theresa Tam’s warning that Canada may be headed for another COVID wave this fall. CBC News reports on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gloria Oladipo reports on the spread of two new Omicron subvariants (BA.4 and BA.5) across the U.S., while Rahul Suryawanshi et al.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nathalie Schwab et al. study the results of autopsies, and find that COVID-19 appears to be the actual cause of death even for…
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Brodbeck writes about the need to treat the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic as human beings, rather than mere statistics to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matt Gurney examines the competing interpretations of what it means to say COVID is over, reaching the grim conclusion that we’re never going…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Small writes about the hope that one of the responses to COVID-19 will be a shift toward inhaled vaccines. But for those…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz discuss the increased number of deaths among the elderly caused the Omicron COVID-19 variant as compared to previous…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kimberlyn McGrail examines the excess deaths caused by COVID-19 in Canada. Eric Berger discusses the continued lack of progress in diagnosing and…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur is rightly frustrated by an attitude of utter denial and amnesia toward a pandemic still in progress. And Fenit Nirappil, Craig…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Selena Simmons-Duffin writes about the large number of COVID cases going unreported – and thus unaccounted for in risk mitigation – due…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katherine Wu warns about the consequences of the powers that be deciding that people will be subjected to repeated COVID-19 infections. And Saba…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sara Reardon discusses new research showing that vaccination has only a limited effect on the prevalance of long COVID among people who…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aekkachai Tuekprakhon et al. study how the Omicron COVID-19 subvariants are evading both previous immunity and existing treatments. And Zak Vescera reports on…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Associated Press reports on Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Mary Papenfuss discusses how people living…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Irelyne Lavery reports on the increasing number of Canadians needing medical attention for the flu as COVID-related protections have been scrapped. And Wallace…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment…