Saturday Stories: Our Biggest Failing, Anti-Vaxxers' Ongoing Radicalization, And Breakthrough Infectiousness

James Heathers, with a rare must read recommendation, in Medium, on how our biggest failing of the pandemic has been keeping it invisible. 

Ben Collins, in NBC News, on the rapid continuing radicalization of the anti-vaxxer movement

Craig Spencer, in The Atlantic, explains why vaccinated people are far less likely to spread the coronavirus

[And my latest in Medscape - did you hear? Eating an excess of calories doesn't cause obesity AND there's an amazing new paradigm? I did. Sigh.]

Saturday Stories: What Is VAERS, Alberta's Disaster, And Kindness Gaslighting

Meredith Wadman, in Science, explains what VAERS derived data is, why anti-vaxxers love it, and why it's wrong to use it as a dataset. 

Jason Markusoff, in MacLean's, on the disaster that is Alberta and the reason for it - the disaster that is Jason Kenney.

Jillian Hortin, in The Globe and Mail, on the kindness gaslighting of healthcare professionals.

Saturday Stories: Ending Respiratory Illnesses, Collapsing Medical Systems, And Sick Societies

Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on putting an end to all respiratory viruses (not just COVID)

Vishal Khetpal, in Slate, on the collapse of the American medical system.

Jay S. Kaufman, in The New York Times, explains how sick societies trump science and lead to avoidable failures

Saturday Stories: The Next Variant, Long-Haulers, And Waning Immunity

Olivia Goldhill, in STAT, on the race against the next worse variant.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how COVID long haulers are everyone's problem.

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with why you likely need not worry too much about your waning immunity.

Also, I wrote something for Medscape on that story you might have heard about where eating one hotdog apparently shortens your healthy life by 36 minutes