Saturday Stories: Brain Fog, Dingbats, and Failures

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a tremendous piece on COVID brain fog.

Jonathan Jarry, in McGill's Office for Science and Society, explores Eric Feigl-Ding's monetized alarmism.

Jefferey D. Sachs and more professors than I can list, in The Lancet, present The Lancet's commission findings detailing the ways the world has failed its pandemic response and suggestions moving forward.

Saturday Stories: Unmasked Doctors, and COVID orphans

Megan Molteni, in STAT, on unmasked doctors infecting their vulnerable patients.

Susan Hillis, Joel-Pascal, Ntwali N’konzi, and William Msemburi, in JAMA, on the 10.5 million children who have experienced orphanhood and.caregiver loss consequent to just a cold

Saturday Story: Post-COVID Illness

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

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

March 11th, 2021

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, on doctors who have declared the pandemic over, over and over again (and there are many more of these of course including here in my home town)

Daniel Goldberg, in Bill of Health, on the dangerous fallacy of public health meeting people where they are. 

Saturday Story: Stop Talking About COVID Fatigue

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 rationale for giving up. 

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

Gideon M-K, in Medium, explores the numbers surrounding Long COVID.

Kai Kupferschmidt, in The New York Times, on fighting Monkeypox without homophobia.

Abrome, a small school in Texas whose viral Twitter thread was reprinted in the Tasmanian Times, on how their school has avoided COVID from the get-go.

Saturday Stories: Superbugs, Heart Disease, and Mythology

Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the superbug surge the pandemic has fueled. 

Saima May Sidik, in Nature, on everything we now know about heart disease post COVID.

Chris Goodnow, in ABC news, busts three of COVID's most pervasive myths

Saturday Stories: Those Clowns Said Whatnow, and Public Health

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

Eleanor Cummins, in Wired, on what has become of public health.

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

Liza Agrba, in Macleans, interviews ER doc Kashif Pirzada on Canada's ER crisis. 

Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, on what comes next after Omicron

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

Hilda Bastien, in Absolutely Maybe, gives us a hopeful update on the state of variant proof Coronavirus vaccines

Farah Hancock, in RNZ, with a terrific read on how to determine how much of whose breath are you breathing?

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with essential reading on BA.5 and what it means.

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Saturday Stories: Pretending and Multiwave Pandemics

Stephen Reicher, in The Guardian, explains how pretending we're doing with COVID will only make this pandemic last longer, it'll weaken the chances of our successfully dealing with the next one. 

Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Corentin Cot and Francesco Sannino, in Nature, on how to tame multiwave pandemics (like COVID)

Saturday Stories: What Now?

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

Saturday Stories: Health-care Burnout and Rabbit Myxoma Virus

Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on the realities of burnout in health-care

Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, discusses the evolving virulence of the rabbit myxoma virus.

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

Betsy Ladyzhets, in TIME, tells you what we currently know about the newest crop of variants that can reinfect even those who've already had Omicron. 

Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, in Science, on the possible causes of Long COVID.

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

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

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

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on getting COVID again and again and again.

Melody Schreiber, in The Guardian, on the dangers of actively undercounting cases.

Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe, on the antivax weaponization of absolute risk. 

[And if you have the time, I had a lovely chat with my good friend Dr. Danielle Belardo on her terrific podcast Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction about obesity, weight bias, medications, and more]

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

Helen Branswell, in STAT, on Monkeypox messaging amidst stigma and unknowns.

Akiko Iwasaki, in The New York Times, on the promise of nasal COVID vaccines.

Danielle Wenner and Gabriela Arguedas Ramírez, in STAT, on the danger and folly of omitting long COVID from public health messaging. 

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Saturday Stories: Kid Myths, Monkeypox, and Healthcare

Mark Kline, in The Advocate, on kids’ COVID myths.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on Monkeypox.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on healthcare’s devastation.

Saturday Stories: Correlations, Trolling, And School Ventilation

Nans Florens, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Jérôme Barriere, Eric Billy, Fabrice Frank, Véronique Saada, Alexander Samuel, Barbara Seitz-Polski, Kyle Sheldrick, and Lonni Besançon, in OCF Preprints ask should we publish every correlation during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Lisa Palmer and Silvia Waisbord, in Undark, on the toll trolls are taking on science journalism. 

Jonathan Lambert, in Grid, with a fantastic overview on ventilation in schools - why it matters, and how to fix it. 

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

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, speaking at Yale, discusses 2 years of covering the pandemic (and winnning pretty much all the science awards there are for same including a Pulitzer).

Helen Branswell, in STAT, reviews what we do and don't know and how we'll find out more about the cause of the mystery severe hepatitis being found in children.

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