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.

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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.