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

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...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the immeasurable grief. Don't look away. 

Andrew Nikiforuk, in The Tyee, on Sweden's deadly COVID failures (which are playing out now here all over North America)  Nathaniel Base...

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, more politely asks how did normal expand to include kids dying from vaccine preventable diseases...

The editorial board of Nature on the folly of stopping the tracking of COVID. Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman, in Protean, on the privileg...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the disaster being wrought by governments giving up on COVID control.  The late and great Paul Farmer, in Noēma...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how we've become numb to the ongoing deaths. Zeynep Tufecki, in The New York Times, on the lessons we still...

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, discusses the American shift to individualized COVID responses - a shift that is also being felt across mu...

Melody Schreiber, in The New Republic, on why the #UrgencyOfNormal cabal so badly want kids to be unmasked.  The #UrgencyOfEquity, which I s...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how the #UrgencyofNormal/done with COVID talk condemns the immunocompromised Ramnath Subbaraman,  Michelle Holm...

Edward A. Nardell, in Time, on how to clean our indoor air. Gregg Gonsalves, in The Nation, on the dangers of hopium and wishful thinking on...

Jacob Stern and Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on the meaninglessness of endemicity. John M. Barry, in The New York Times, on learning fr...

Aris Katzourakis, in Nature, on what the word endemic actually means Hitoshi Oshitani, in the New York Times, on what Japan got right in its...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on why it's a terrible idea not to treat the unvaccinated. Katherine J. Wu, also in The Atlantic, on whether O...

Chuck Wendig, in TerribleMinds, on our great surrender and how we let COVID win. Bruce Arthur, in The Toronto Star, on the myth of mild Omic...

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on the dumpster fire that is America's COVID rules  (and for Canadian readers, much overlap with ours...

Andrew Joseph and Helen Branswell, in STAT, on the lessons we're learning from Omicron. More Helen Branswell, in STAT, on 10 lessons she...

Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on how our response to Omicron to date represents all of our past mistakes on fa...

Ed Yong, the best science journalist of this pandemic, in the Atlantic, discusses Omicron and how we're definitely not ready for it . It...