Saturday Stories: The Next Variant, Vaccination Realities, And Medical Exemptions

Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, on the next worse variant.

Helen Branswell, in STAT, discusses the Delta tuned realities of vaccination

Omar Mosleh, in the Toronto Star, on why you're probably not going to get a medical vaccination exemption

Saturday Stories: Masks And Children, Protecting Unvaccinated Kids, And What's Safe To Do?

Judith Danovitch, in The New York Times, on how masks might help your children to learn.

Lael M. Yonker and Anthony J. Fischer, in Time, on how we can protect unvaccinated kids.

Helen Branswell, in STAT, polled some epidemiologists about what they were and were not comfortable doing this summer.

Saturday Stories: When For the Under 12s, The End of Ivermectin, Delta and Kids, And Now What

Rachel Gutman, in The Atlantic, on the timeline and process to see the vaccines approved for kids under 12.

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Medium, on how though he hopes he's wrong, this latest study likely puts a nearly final nail in the coffin of horse dewormer ivermectin being useful with COVID.

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on the dangers of Delta for kids.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, reflecting on how Delta's changed the pandemic's endgame and now what?

Saturday Stories: Canada's 4th Wave and Canada's Failed Emergency Brake

Brooks Fallis, in The Globe and Mail, on how Canada won't be able to vaccinate itself out of a fourth wave and what we'll need to do to prevent it. 

Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on Canada's broken (I'd argue cut) emergency brake and the failure of our politics and politicians.