Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the superbug surge the pandemic has fueled.
Saturday, August 06, 2022
Saturday Stories: Superbugs, Heart Disease, and Mythology
Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the superbug surge the pandemic has fueled.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Saturday Stories: Those Clowns Said Whatnow, and Public Health
Orac, in Respectful Insolence, discusses John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad and their latest edition of did they really actually write that?
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Saturday Stories: Dispatch From The ER, and What Comes After Omicron
Liza Agrba, in Macleans, interviews ER doc Kashif Pirzada on Canada's ER crisis.
Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, on what comes next after Omicron
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Saturday Stories: Variant Proof Vaccines, Whose Breath Are You Breathing, and BA.5
Hilda Bastien, in Absolutely Maybe, gives us a hopeful update on the state of variant proof Coronavirus vaccines
Saturday, July 09, 2022
Saturday Stories: Pretending and Multiwave Pandemics
Stephen Reicher, in The Guardian, explains how pretending we're doing with COVID will only make this pandemic last longer, it'll weaken the chances of our successfully dealing with the next one.
Saturday, July 02, 2022
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Saturday Stories: Health-care Burnout and Rabbit Myxoma Virus
Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on the realities of burnout in health-care
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Saturday Stories: The New Variants And Long COVID's Potential Causes
Betsy Ladyzhets, in TIME, tells you what we currently know about the newest crop of variants that can reinfect even those who've already had Omicron.
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Saturday, June 04, 2022
Saturday Stories: Again And Again, Undercounting, And Absolute Risk
Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on getting COVID again and again and again.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Saturday Stories: Monkeypox Messaging, Nasal Vaccines, and Long COVID Messaging
Helen Branswell, in STAT, on Monkeypox messaging amidst stigma and unknowns.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Saturday Stories: Kid Myths, Monkeypox, and Healthcare
Mark Kline, in The Advocate, on kids’ COVID myths.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on Monkeypox.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on healthcare’s devastation.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Saturday Stories: Correlations, Trolling, And School Ventilation
Nans Florens, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Jérôme Barriere, Eric Billy, Fabrice Frank, Véronique Saada, Alexander Samuel, Barbara Seitz-Polski, Kyle Sheldrick, and Lonni Besançon, in OCF Preprints ask should we publish every correlation during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Saturday, May 07, 2022
Saturday Stories: Not Over, Pandemic Coverage, And Childhood Hepatitis
H. Holden Thorp, in Science, on how it ain't over until it's over and the failures of governments that pretend otherwise.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Saturday Stories: Great Barrington's Failure, and The Pandemicine
Orac, in Respectful Insolence, on the baked in failure of the Great Barrington Declaration.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Saturday Stories: Unused Tools, Unsolved Mysteries, and UVC
Selena Simmons-Duffin, in NPR, drawing from HIV to explain how having the tools to beat a virus isn't the same thing as using them.
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Saturday, April 09, 2022
Saturday Stories: Sweden's Failure, More For Kids, And What Does Endemic Mean
Andrew Nikiforuk, in The Tyee, on Sweden's deadly COVID failures (which are playing out now here all over North America)
Nathaniel Basen, in TVO, interviews Janine McCready on what more we could be doing to protect children during and after this 6th wave.
Eleanor Lutz and Amy Schoenfeld Walker, in The New York Times, with an explainer on a very misunderstood word - endemic
Saturday, April 02, 2022
Saturday Stories: Normal?, Living?, Human Rights?
Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, more politely asks how did normal expand to include kids dying from vaccine preventable diseases?
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Saturday Stories: Tracking, Motivated Reasoning, And Normal's About To Be Tested
The editorial board of Nature on the folly of stopping the tracking of COVID.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Saturday Stories: Giving Up And Not Giving Up
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the disaster being wrought by governments giving up on COVID control.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Saturday Stories: Numbness and Not Learning
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how we've become numb to the ongoing deaths.
Saturday, March 05, 2022
Saturday Story: Pandemic Response Can't Just Be Individual To Be Effective, And Focused Protection Is Bullshit
Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, discusses the American shift to individualized COVID responses - a shift that is also being felt across much of Canada
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Saturday Stories: How the #UrgencyOfNormal ignores the #UrgencyOfEquity
Melody Schreiber, in The New Republic, on why the #UrgencyOfNormal cabal so badly want kids to be unmasked.
The #UrgencyOfEquity, which I support, discusses how to best protect our most vulnerable and marginalized students during this pandemic.
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Saturday Stories: #Urgency of Normal Done With COVID x 3 And What To Do Post-Omicron
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how the #UrgencyofNormal/done with COVID talk condemns the immunocompromised
Ramnath Subbaraman, Michelle Holmes, and Lakshmi Ganapathi, in Common Dream, on the privilege required to state that you're done with COVID.
Gregg Gonsalves, in The New York Times, on the immorality of #UrgencyofNormal done with COVID takes.
Gavin Yamey, Abraar Karan and Ranu Dhillon in TIME, on what we need to do with our post-Omicron time.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Saturday Stories: Air, Hopium, And Kids' Masks
Edward A. Nardell, in Time, on how to clean our indoor air.
Saturday, February 05, 2022
Saturday Stories: Endemicity's Meaninglessness, 1918's Flu, And Hospitals
Jacob Stern and Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on the meaninglessness of endemicity.
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Saturday Stories: Endemicity and Japan
Aris Katzourakis, in Nature, on what the word endemic actually means
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Saturday Stories: Treating the Unvaccinated, Will Omicron Hasten Immunity, And Airborne COVID
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on why it's a terrible idea not to treat the unvaccinated.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Saturday Stories: The Great Surrender, It's Mild, It's So Mild, With COVID
Chuck Wendig, in TerribleMinds, on our great surrender and how we let COVID win.
Bruce Arthur, in The Toronto Star, on the myth of mild Omicron.
Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on how we're long past the point of hoping 'mild' Omicron will spare us.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the fallacies swirling around the hospitalized "with" COVID discussion.
Saturday, January 08, 2022
Saturday Stories: America's COVID Rules, COVID fatigue, And Omicron Healthcare
Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on the dumpster fire that is America's COVID rules (and for Canadian readers, much overlap with ours).
Saturday, January 01, 2022
Saturday Stories: Omicron's Teaching, COVID's Teaching, And Teaching LeBron
Andrew Joseph and Helen Branswell, in STAT, on the lessons we're learning from Omicron.