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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Saturday Stories: Health-care Burnout and Rabbit Myxoma Virus

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Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on the realities of burnout in health-care Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, discusses the evolving v...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Saturday Stories: The New Variants And Long COVID's Potential Causes

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Betsy Ladyzhets, in TIME, tells you what we currently know about the newest crop of variants that can reinfect even those who've alread...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Saturday Story: Just One. You Don't Want Long COVID

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Rob Chaney, in the Missoulian, on the failures of risk calculus and the misery that can cause. 
Saturday, June 04, 2022

Saturday Stories: Again And Again, Undercounting, And Absolute Risk

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Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on getting COVID again and again and again . Melody Schreiber, in The Guardian, on the dangers of actively...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

Saturday Stories: Monkeypox Messaging, Nasal Vaccines, and Long COVID Messaging

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Helen Branswell, in STAT, on Monkeypox messaging amidst stigma and unknowns . Akiko Iwasaki, in The New York Times, on the promise of nasal ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Saturday Stories: Kid Myths, Monkeypox, and Healthcare

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Mark Kline, in The Advocate,  on kids’ COVID myths. Ed Yong, in The Atlantic,  on Monkeypox. Ed Yong, in The Atlantic,  on healthcare’s deva...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Saturday Stories: Correlations, Trolling, And School Ventilation

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Nans Florens, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Jérôme Barriere, Eric Billy, Fabrice Frank, Véronique Saada, Alexander Samuel, Barbara Seitz-Polski, K...
Saturday, May 07, 2022

Saturday Stories: Not Over, Pandemic Coverage, And Childhood Hepatitis

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H. Holden Thorp, in Science, on how it ain't over until it's over and the failures of governments that pretend otherwise.  Ed Yong, ...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Saturday Stories: Great Barrington's Failure, and The Pandemicine

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Orac, in Respectful Insolence, on the baked in failure of the Great Barrington Declaration . Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how climate change...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

Saturday Stories: Unused Tools, Unsolved Mysteries, and UVC

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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. STAT...
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Yoni Freedhoff, MD
I'm an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa and the medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute and Constant Health. Also a dad of 3 girls, one cat, one dog, and grower of exotic peppers.
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