Saturday Stories: UK Virus Factory, Canadian Vaccination Mandates, And Masking While Vaccinated

Philip Ball, in Nature, on how the UK's COVID Freedom Day and dropping of restrictions risks incubating far worse variants that will risk us all. 

Andrew Coyne, in The Globe and Mail, makes the clear case for vaccination mandates in Canada. 

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with a view that I share wholeheartedly on why she's still masking despite being fully vaccinated. 

Saturday Stories: Myocarditis, Breakthrough Infections, and Ivermectin Fraud

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, explores myocarditis and spin with the mRNA vaccines.

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on how to understand breakthrough infections in the vaccinated. 

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Medium, covers the terrible, fraudulent research that's been used to promote ivermectin. 

Saturday Stories: Kids, New Zealand, And More Kids

Jeremy Samuel Faust, Katie Dickerson Mayes and Céline Gounder, in The New York Times, with more on the risk of COVID to kids and how ultimately the choice will be for them to eventually catch it, or get vaccinated. 

Tess McClure, in The Guardian, on New Zealand's ongoing successful refusal to live with COVID.

Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe, on what she sees as a dangerous trend towards exceptionalism in the COVID-Kids debate. 

Saturday Stories: Base Rate Bias, Weight Bias, And The Future of Ventilation

Katelyn Jetelina, in Your Local Epidemiologist, explains base rate bias by way of Israel, Delta, and 50% of cases being found in those already vaccinated. 

Diana Duong, in the CMAJ, briefly interviews me regarding obesity, weight bias, and COVID.

Lidia Morawska, Joseph Allen, William Bahnfleth, Philomena M. Bluyssen, Atze Boerstra, Giorgio Buonanno, Junji Cao, Stephanie J. Dancer, Andres Floto, Francesco Franchimon, Trisha Greenhalgh, Charles Haworth, Jaap Hogeling, Christina Isaxon, Jose L. Jimenez, Jarek Kurnitski, Yuguo Li, Marcel Loomans, Guy Marks, Linsey C. Marr, Livio Mazzarella, Arsen Krikor Melikov, Shelly Miller, Donald K. Milton, William Nazaroff, Peter V. Nielsen, Catherine Noakes, Jordan Peccia, Kim Prather, Xavier Querol, Chandra Sekhar, Olli Seppänen, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Julian W. Tang, Raymond Tellier, Kwok Wai Tham, Pawel Wargocki, Aneta Wierzbicka, Maosheng Yao, in Science, on the paradigm shift needed to combat airborne respiratory infections.

Saturday Stories: Vaccinating Kids, Ivermectin, and Novavax

Edward Nirenberg, Daniel A. Freedman, Risa Hoshino, Jonathan Howard, and Alastair McAlpine,  in BMJ Blogs, on vaccinating kids vs. COVID. 

Anna Merlan, in Vice, on the invermectin conspiracy mongers. 

Hilda Bastien, in The Atlantic, on why Novavax might be the best vaccine we've got. 

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.