Saturday, September 19, 2020

Saturday Stories: Considering Risk and Great Fences

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Aaron E. Carroll, in The New York Times, with a useful read on how most of us have been considering and responding to risk backwards. Tomá...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Saturday Stories: COVID Winter, Circular Errors, Mutations, And Obesity

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Irfan Dhalla, in The Globe and Mail, on COVID and the rapidly approaching Canadian winter. Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the recurrent erro...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

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Mark Earnest, in The New England Journal of Medicine, on becoming a plague doctor. James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on why herd immunity is...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Saturday Stories: Racist Pulse Oximeters, Convalescent Plasma Politics, Rapid Testing, And Immunity

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Amy Moran-Thomas, in Boston Review, on how pulse oximeters, integral to the care of a COVID19 patient, encode systemic racism. Craig Spenc...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Saturday Stories: 7 Months In, Magical Thinking, Long Haulers, And Weighing Kids In School

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Andrew Joseph, Helen Branswell, and Elizabeth Cooney, in STAT, review all that we currently know about COVID-19 and the pressing questions t...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Saturday Stories: Kids And School, The Immune System, Russian Vaccines, And Sharpies

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Zoë Hyde, in a pre-print in The Medical Journal of Australia, with  a review article covering what we do and don't know about the risks ...
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Saturday Story: Just One This Week. A Must Read If You Haven't Yet

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Ed Yong, in the Atlantic, with the sadly all too believable (yet still unbelievable) story of how SARS-CoV2 defeated America
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Canada's Obesity In Adults: A Clinical Practice Guideline, Released Today, A Huge Step Forward

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I'm proud to have played a small part in the release of today's Obesity In Adults: A Clinical Practice Guideline as it is the first...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vaccine Reality Check, Early Warning Failure, And Maybe We Should Talk About Ventilation

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Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, with a vaccine reality check . Grant Robertson, in The Globe and Mail, on how Canada's pandemic early wa...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Saturday Stories: COVID Orphans, A Must Read Piece, The Currency of Risk, And COVID19 Vaccine Side Effects

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Dr. Anna DeForest John Woodrow Cox, in the Washington Post, with a heartbreaking story about 3 coronavirus orphans. Anna DeForest, in ...