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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Saturday Stories: The Election, The World Series, And The Expectations

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, predicts what the future of COVID in America will look like following a Biden or a Trump election win. Jeff Passan...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Saturday Stories: Respecting Uncertainty, Rapid Home Testing, And Herd Immunity

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George Davey Smith, Michael Blastland, and Marcus Munafò, in the BMJ, on how when it comes to COVID, certainty is a red flag. Amy McDermott,...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

RDs! We're Hiring! Looking To Fill A Full-Time Permanent Position With My New Venture Constant Health (Telecommuters Welcome!)

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Since 2004, Constant Health ’s expert team has been at the forefront behavioural weight management, and now, by leveraging the best that tec...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Saturday Stories: The Scamedemic, The "Great" Barrington Declaration, Sweden, And The John Snow Memorandum

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  Tony Scott, in SFGate, on how he used to call it the 'scamedemic'. He doesn't anymore.  Marc Lipsitch, Gregg Gonsalves, Carlos...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vitamin D, The New England Journal of Medicine, Toxic Masculinity, And Super-Spreading

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Gid M-K, in Medium, tells us what we do and don't know about Vitamin D and COVID The Editors of and in The New England Journal of Medici...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vaccine Chaos And What Did You Expect?

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Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on why vaccine chaos may be looming David Frum, also in The Atlantic, asks, what did you expect ?
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vaccine Collaboration, Racism and COVID Coverage, and Nonsensical Athletes

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Julia Belluz, in Vox, on the 156 countries teaming up on a COVID vaccine (without the US and China) . Indi Samarajiva, in Medium, on the ove...
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 ...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Saturday Stories: Herd Immunity Is Up To Us, #SchoolsBeforeBars, Another Pandemic, And The American Dumpster Fire

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James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, with an explainer on how herd immunity might only require 20% of us to be immune (whether by vaccine or in...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Saturday Stories: Is It Airborne?, Exhausted Experts, Sweden, Cancer During COVID, And Schools

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Apoorva Mandavilli, in The New York Times, with a discussion on whether or not SARS-CoV2 is airborne and what that actually means. Ed Yong...
Saturday, July 04, 2020

Saturday Stories: No Heroes In Science, Selflessness, School Reopening, And Vaccine Developments

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Stuart Richie, in Unherd, reminds us why there should be no such thing as science heroes . Wency Leung, in The Globe and Mail, discusses h...
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