Saturday Stories: Endemicity and Japan

Aris Katzourakis, in Nature, on what the word endemic actually means

Hitoshi Oshitani, in the New York Times, on what Japan got right in its approach to the pandemic.

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Saturday Stories: Treating the Unvaccinated, Will Omicron Hasten Immunity, And Airborne COVID

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on why it's a terrible idea not to treat the unvaccinated.

Katherine J. Wu, also in The Atlantic, on whether Omicron infections will translate into widespread immunity.

The Agenda, with a great segment on how COVID is airborne.

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Saturday Stories: The Great Surrender, It's Mild, It's So Mild, With COVID

Chuck Wendig, in TerribleMinds, on our great surrender and how we let COVID win.

Bruce Arthur, in The Toronto Star, on the myth of mild Omicron.

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on how we're long past the point of hoping 'mild' Omicron will spare us.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the fallacies swirling around the hospitalized "with" COVID discussion.

Saturday Stories: America's COVID Rules, COVID fatigue, And Omicron Healthcare

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on the dumpster fire that is America's COVID rules (and for Canadian readers, much overlap with ours).

Gregg Gonsalves, in The Nation, on the impact of COVID fatigue on our morality. 

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the crushing impact "mild" Omicron has on healthcare delivery.

Saturday Stories: Omicron's Teaching, COVID's Teaching, And Teaching LeBron

Andrew Joseph and Helen Branswell, in STAT, on the lessons we're learning from Omicron.

More Helen Branswell, in STAT, on 10 lessons she's learned covering the pandemic.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his Substack, helps LeBron James understand the differences between colds, flus, and COVID.

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