Saturday, May 29, 2021

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




Saturday, May 22, 2021

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, May 15, 2021

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. 

Photo byAnthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC) - Charlottesville "Unite the Right" Rally, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68193094


Saturday, May 08, 2021

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