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Saturday, September 17, 2022

Saturday Stories: Brain Fog, Dingbats, and Failures

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a tremendous piece on COVID brain fog. Jonathan Jarry, in McGill's Office for Science and Society, explor...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Saturday Stories: Unmasked Doctors, and COVID orphans

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Megan Molteni, in STAT, on unmasked doctors infecting their vulnerable patients. Susan Hillis, Joel-Pascal, Ntwali N’konzi, and William Msem...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

Saturday Story: Post-COVID Illness

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Sarah Neville, in The Financial Times, on the post-COVID tsunami of illness we may well face as a consequence of letting it rip.
Friday, August 26, 2022

Saturday Story: The Doctors Who Have Declared The Pandemic Over, Over And Over Again, And Meeting People Where They Are

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March 11th, 2021 Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, on doctors who have declared the pandemic over, over and over again (and there ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Saturday Story: Stop Talking About COVID Fatigue

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Martha Lincoln, in The Nation, on how we're never getting out of this so long as we keep leaning on "COVID fatigue" as our rat...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Saturday Stories: Long COVID Numbers, MonkeyPox, And How One School Managed To Avoid COVID Entirely

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Gideon M-K, in Medium, explores the numbers surrounding Long COVID. Kai Kupferschmidt, in The New York Times, on fighting Monkeypox without...
Saturday, August 06, 2022

Saturday Stories: Superbugs, Heart Disease, and Mythology

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Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the superbug surge the pandemic has fueled.  Saima May Sidik, in Nature, on everything we now know about heart d...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Saturday Stories: Those Clowns Said Whatnow, and Public Health

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Orac, in Respectful Insolence, discusses  John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad and their latest edition of did  they really actually write that? ...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Saturday Stories: Dispatch From The ER, and What Comes After Omicron

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Liza Agrba, in Macleans, interviews ER doc Kashif Pirzada on Canada's ER crisis.  Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, on what comes next afte...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Saturday Stories: Variant Proof Vaccines, Whose Breath Are You Breathing, and BA.5

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Hilda Bastien, in Absolutely Maybe, gives us a hopeful update on the state of variant proof Coronavirus vaccines Farah Hancock, in RNZ, with...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Saturday Stories: Pretending and Multiwave Pandemics

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Stephen Reicher, in The Guardian, explains how pretending we're doing with COVID will only make this pandemic last longer, it'll wea...
Saturday, July 02, 2022

Saturday Stories: What Now?

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Ed Yong, in the Atlantic, ponders what we should be doing now ?
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, ...
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