Saturday, January 16, 2021

Saturday Stories: The Myths Of Pandemic Fatigue, COVID Is Absolutely Controllable, And On Being A Female Expert

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If you're not already following Dr. Popescu, you should be . Stephen Reicher and John Drury, in the BMJ, on how adherence to COVID recom...
Saturday, January 09, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccination, Variants, and Lockdowns

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Daniela J. Lamas, in The New York Times, reflects as a front line physician on her vaccination. Julia Belluz in Vox, on the new COVID varian...
Saturday, January 02, 2021

Saturday Stories: Year Two And The New Strain

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a typically phenomenal piece (and sadly the last he'll be writing for a while as he finishes up a book) w...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Saturday Stories: Bill Gates' Hopeful Thoughts, COVID Mythbusting, And #COVIDZero

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Bill Gates, in his blog GatesNotes, explains the science of why 2021 promises many more advances in the treatment and prevention of COVID an...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Saturday Stories: Caring For Patients With COVID, Side Effects, And Science

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Olivia Veira and Joshua M. Sharfstein, in JAMA, with a roundup of healthcare workers' candid thoughts on caring for patients with COVID....
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Saturday Stories: How Pfizer's Vaccine Works, School Closures And Life Expectancies, And Your Place In The Vaccination Line

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Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, explain how the Pfizer vaccine will work inside of your body. Melissa Davey, in The G...
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Saturday Stories: What We Should Be Doing While Awaiting Vaccines, How To Make The Best Of Vaccines, And Our Shameful Failure With Our Racialized Neighbourhoods

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Zain Chagla, Sumon Chakrabarti, Isaac Bogoch and Lynora Saxinger, in The National Post, on what we should be doing with vaccines on the hori...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Saturday Stories: Rapid Home Testing Could Save The Day, Pandemic Winter Rules To Rule Them All, And Yes, Kids Transmit COVID19

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Michael Mina, in TIME, on why he thinks  cheap, rapid, testing could dig us out of our holes long before vaccines start going into arms.  Ra...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

My #Movember Alex Trebek Tribute Moustache And Why I Almost Didn't Bother

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Plainly, 2020 has been an awful year. And I know that I haven't been blogging, but it just feels wrong to be writing about nutrition, me...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Saturday Stories: Antarctically Cold Vaccines, Cancelling Thanksgiving, And How Vermont Succeeded

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Selinia Simmons-Duffin, in NPR Shots, on why Pfizer's vaccine needs to be kept at temperatures lower than an Antarctic winter. James Ham...