Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on the realities of burnout in health-care
Saturday, June 25, 2022
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, June 18, 2022
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, June 11, 2022
Saturday, June 04, 2022
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, May 28, 2022
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, May 21, 2022
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, May 14, 2022
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, May 07, 2022
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.
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.
Illustration by https://www.scientificanimations.com - https://www.scientificanimations.com/wiki-images, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95721064
Saturday, April 30, 2022
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, April 23, 2022
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.
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