Saturday Stories: The Subvariants and Racial Inequity

Steven Novella, in Science Based Medicine, on the coming subvariants

Marina Del Rios, Nathan T. Chomilo and Neil A. Lewis, Jr., in STAT, on the racial inequities of our COVID response.

Saturday Stories: Death Eaters And Unfollowed Advice

Gregg Gonsalves, in The Nation, with his call to rescue public health from the death eaters of neutrality. 

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Michaels, Rick Bright and Michael T. Osterholm, in the New York Times, on the unheeded advice they provided President Biden as members of his COVID advisory board regarding the pandemic. 

Saturday Stories: I Want My Far-UV, Japan, And Long COVID Doc Testimony

Chris Baraniuk, in the Atlantic, on the promise that are far-UV lamps for this and all future pandemics and airborne pathogens. They can't come fast enough. 

Philip Schellekens, in pandemic, on the difference in approaches between the G7 countries with the highest (US) and lowest (Japan) COVID death rates.

Tara De Boer, in Macleans, interviews Dr. Angela Cheung on her experiences working in one of Canada's new long COVID clinics

Saturday Stories: Nihilism, Warning Signs, and Mass Infections

Nate Holdren, in Bill of Health, on Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil

Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, on our upcoming "post-pandemic" winter.

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, on the ethics of the mass infection of unvaccinated young people.

Saturday Stories: Clean Air, History Repeating, and Joe Lunn

Nina Notman, in Chemistry World, on whether we can clean our indoor air.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a must read piece on how our failure on COVID means this is all certain to happen again. Ed reported on Twitter that he'll be taking a 6 month hiatus. His voice will be dearly missed.

Heather Kitching, for CBC News, tells us the tragic tale of Joe Lunn, the heart transplant recipient who spoke out with his fear that he would die consequent to the province abandoning even the most basic of protections, who died of COVID.