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.

Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman, in Protean, on the privileged attack on public education in the name of "normal".

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on how the looming wave crash will break onto unprotected normal.

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. 

The late and great Paul Farmer, in Noēma, on social medicine for a better future.

Saturday Stories: Numbness and Not Learning

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how we've become numb to the ongoing deaths.

Zeynep Tufecki, in The New York Times, on the lessons we still haven't learned that could have saved millions of lives. 

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

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Medium, covering the folly of "focused protection".