public health

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a…

Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dhruv Khullar interviews Ashish Jha about what’s to come in the COVID-19 pandemic – including the desperate need for mitigation measures to reduce…

Saturday Morning Links

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dianna Chang et al. examine the correlation between social and political factors and COVID-19 spread and mortality. And Crawford Kilian discusses how Canadian…

Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll report on New South Wales’ warning of the potential for COVID-19 reinfection as the newer Omicron variants become…

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…

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…

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