Saturday Stories: Vaccines Will Work, The Vaccine Whisperer Hilda Bastian, And The Secret Life of SARs-CoV2

Angela L. Rasmussen, in the New York Times, explains how yes, the vaccines will work to stop the spread.

Julia Belluz, in Vox, interviews the inimitable Hilda Bastian, the scientist who has been right on COVID vaccines every step of the way. 

Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, on the secret life of a coronavirus.

Saturday Stories: Which Vaccine Should You Get, And Summertime

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in The Guardian, discusses which vaccine you should get.

James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on what summer might look like (in the US mind you, here in Canada, given our exceedingly slow pace of vaccination, this might not apply)

Saturday Stories: No Herd Immunity Without Vaccines, Hygiene Theatre, And Sleepwalking Into Disaster

Michaeleen Doucleff, in NPR, explains how a small town in Brazil has tragically shown us that without vaccines, herd immunity is impossible.

Derek Thompson, in The Atlantic, on the waste of resources and the disinformation that is hygiene theatre

Brooks Fallis, in The Globe and Mail, on how Canada is sleepwalking into our next disastrous surge.

Photo by By Jesus Solana from Madrid, Spain - Black sheep . Do u also feel different? // la Oveja negra. Tambien te sientes diferente?, CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5050231

Saturday Stories: The Australian Response, The Brazilian Variant, And The Russian Vaccine

Damien Cave, in The New York Times, on how Australia is maintaining near normalcy of life in the time of COVID19

James Hamblin, in the Atlantic, on the Brazilian variant that's currently rampaging through a city that had been thought to be immune due to acquired immunity from a previously brutal wave in April 2020.

Joshua Yaffa, in The New Yorker, on Russia's Sputnik V vaccine and their race to immunity.

Saturday Stories: Vaccines Alone Aren't Enough, Women And Vaccines, Why Every Country Should Be Aiming At #COVIDZero, J&J And Novavax

Angela Rasmussen, in Slate, on how we can't rely on vaccines alone to end this pandemic (this is especially true right now in Canada where our vaccination program is barely off the ground)

Alice Lu-Culligan and Akiko Iwasaki, in the New York Times, on the safety of COVID vaccines for women of all ages

Michael Baker and Martin McKee, in The Guardian, on the 16 reasons why every country should be aiming for #COVIDZero.

Derek Lowe, in Science and Translational Medicine, on the new vaccines on the block - Novavax and J&J

Saturday Stories: Anti-Vaxxer COVID Playbook, A Potentially Scarier Variant, And Ontario's Abysmal Response To Date

Scott Gavura, in Science Based Medicine, on the anti-vaxx campaign to erode confidence in COVID vaccines.

Julia Belluz and Umair Irfan, in Vox, on the new South African COVID variant that may challenge current vaccines.

André Picard and Adalsteinn Brown in conversation with Matt Galloway on CBC's The Current on Ontario's disappointments in our fight against COVID (do give this a listen, and wow, Dr. Brown's frustration is something to hear)

Saturday Stories: The Myths Of Pandemic Fatigue, COVID Is Absolutely Controllable, And On Being A Female Expert

If you're not already following Dr. Popescu, you should be.

Stephen Reicher and John Drury, in the BMJ, on how adherence to COVID recommendations is reliant more on resources and less on motivation or energy.

Gideon M-K, in Medium, with the plain truth - COVID is absolutely controllable through government interventions and if your government isn't controlling it, that's a choice they've made.

Jessica Gold, in Forbes, on the many layers of added nonsense that women who are COVID experts face online and in the media.

Saturday Stories: Vaccination, Variants, and Lockdowns

Daniela J. Lamas, in The New York Times, reflects as a front line physician on her vaccination.

Julia Belluz in Vox, on the new COVID variants and their implications for vaccinations

Alex Crozier, in The Guardian, on how lockdowns can't work without social supports.

Saturday Stories: Year Two And The New Strain

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a typically phenomenal piece (and sadly the last he'll be writing for a while as he finishes up a book) where he discusses the pandemic's year two.

Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, with what you need to know, and why people are concerned, about the more virulent new strain.

Saturday Stories: Bill Gates' Hopeful Thoughts, COVID Mythbusting, And #COVIDZero

Bill Gates, in his blog GatesNotes, explains the science of why 2021 promises many more advances in the treatment and prevention of COVID and science as a whole.

Gid MK, in Medium, busting 20 myths about COVID

Devi Sridhar, in The Guardian, on how the notion of learning to live with the virus rather than eliminating it is a horrible mistake.