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

Orac, in Respectful Insolence, on the baked in failure of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how climate change may be underwriting this and future pandemics. 

Saturday Stories: Unused Tools, Unsolved Mysteries, and UVC

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 staff, in, yes, STAT, with 6 COVID mysteries that have yet to be solved.

Donald K. Milton, Edward A. Nardell and David Michaels, in The New York Times, on the promise of UVC lighting to help reduce the risk of superspreader events.