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Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig discusses how the Biden administration is providing the Trudeau Libs with an example to follow in ensuring that the ultra-wealthy contribute…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aria Bendix examines the state of current knowledge as to how likely people are to suffer from long COVID after being infected…

Thursday Morning Links

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Luke Savage points out that even biased right-wing polling is finding broad support for stronger social programs and limitations on corporate domination…

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chinta Sidharthan discusses new research on COVID-19 reinfections, showing that subsequent infections tend to produce similar immediate effects to a first one but…

Sunday Morning Links

This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nicholas Frew reports on the wholly-unsurprising news that the XBB.1.5 COVID-19 variant mad its way into Saskatchewan before the holidays with zero…

Saturday Afternoon Links

Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Allison Maher et al. study how COVID-19 causes fundamental changes to a person’s immune system, resulting in far greater vulnerability to other infections.…

Saturday Afternoon Links

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Irfan writes about the implications of COVID-19 having been allowed to spread and mutate to the point where monoclonal antibodies are ineffective…

Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lisa O’Mary discusses the sharply increased risk of severe outcomes from a second (or later) COVID -19 infection. Lauren O’Mahoney et al. examine…

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…

Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Allison Jones reports that Ontario is working on a new round of COVID booster shots for the fall (while so many other jurisdictions…

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…

Thursday Morning Links

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Liz Szabo discusses how improved ventilation has plenty of additional benefits beyond limiting the spread of COVID – making it the COVID…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Crawford Killian writes about the dangers of becoming unduly relaxed about a new COVID wave (with particular reference to South Korea’s experience).…

Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Reuters reports on research showing that public health measures implemented in response to COVID-19 also saved hundreds of thousands of lives by limiting…

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Romano reports on Denmark’s explosion of COVID cases after it prematurely lifted public health protections. Ariana Eunjung Cha reports on the cardiac…

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