Saturday Stories: Delta, Ventilation, and Childhood COVID

Jennifer Yang and Kenyon Wallace, in The Toronto Star, on how cities, provinces and countries awash in vaccines can still mess things up if they're not cautious with the Delta variant. 

Tavia Grant, in The Globe and Mail, on the need to address ventilation in workplaces.

Edward Nirenberg and Risa Hoshino, in Medpage Today, on COVID in childhood.

Saturday Stories: Not Individuals, And Long COVID And Kids

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how health, including during pandemics, cannot be framed as a matter of individual/personal choice.

Elizabeth Cooney, in STAT, on what we do and don't know about children COVID long haulers. 

Saturday Stories: The Finish Line and Microchips

Jessica Smith-Cross, in QP Briefing, on Ontario's (and really everywhere's) COVID finish line. 

James Heathers, in The Atlantic, ponders whether or not he received a microchip in his COVID vaccine.

Saturday Stories: The Latest Scary Variant, Systematic Evidence, And Lab Leaks

John Michael McGrath, for TVO, on what we do and don't know about the latest scary variant B.1.617

Hilda Bastian, in her blog Absolutely Maybe, on the evidence behind the systematic evidence behind all matters COVID. 

David Leonhardt, in The New York Times, with an explainer on the lab leak mess that is suddenly being discussed everywhere. 

Saturday Stories: They Were Loved

More than 25,000 Canadians have been lost to COVID-19 (and terrible governance given the bulk of those deaths were preventable), Macleans is collecting their stories. Please take the time today to click at least a few.

Saturday Stories: Vaccinating Kids, Hatred And COVID

Gideon M-K, in Medium, on whether or not we should be vaccinating kids against the coronavirus (tl;dr - yes) 

Bernie Farber and David Fisman, in The Globe and Mail, on the overlap between racism, hate, and COVID denialists. 

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Saturday Stories: Blood Clots, NNTs, And Incentives

Kai Kupferschmidt and Gretchen Vogel, in Science, explore the future of vaccines with rare risks of blood clots.

Andrew Althouse, in Medscape, on vaccines and the failure of NNTs.

John Michael McGrath, in TVO, makes the case for paying people to get vaccinated

Saturday Stories: One Universal Coronavirus Vaccine, Fringe Science, And The Misnomer Of Vaccine Hesitancy

James Hamblin, in the Atlantic, on the promise of a single coronavirus vaccine which would protect us against SARS, MERS, COVID-19, and every other coronavirus-related disease, forever and ever.

David Robert Grimes, in Scientific American, on how COVID has opened the floodgates of fringe science. 

Stefanie Friedhoff, in STAT, on why we need to stop talking about vaccine "hesitancy".

Saturday Stories: Unanswered Questions, Ontario's Misery, And Vietnam's Triumph

Helen Branswell, in STAT, with the questions experts still have about COVID.

Justin Ling, in Macleans, with the almost unbelievable story of Ontario's science table and its recommendations versus what our government is doing. 

Julia Belluz, in Vox, on Vietnam, not an island, and it's incredibly successful strategy for dealing with COVID 

Saturday Stories: Is Canada a Country, The Gaslighting of Science, And A Non-COVID Piece From Me

Lauren Dobson-Hughes, in The Line, reflecting on Canada's responses to COVID wonders if we are actually a country?

Zeynep, in Insight, on the gaslighting of science.

And in non-COVID writing, here's my latest in Medscape How Dare There Be Effective Drugs for Obesity? which covers the bizarrely negative reaction that effective drugs for obesity face from the medical community and society as a whole