Saturday Stories: Great Barrington's Failure, and The Pandemicine

Orac, in Respectful Insolence, on the baked in failure of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how climate change may be underwriting this and future pandemics. 

Saturday Stories: Unused Tools, Unsolved Mysteries, and UVC

Selena Simmons-Duffin, in NPR, drawing from HIV to explain how having the tools to beat a virus isn't the same thing as using them.

STAT staff, in, yes, STAT, with 6 COVID mysteries that have yet to be solved.

Donald K. Milton, Edward A. Nardell and David Michaels, in The New York Times, on the promise of UVC lighting to help reduce the risk of superspreader events.

Saturday Story: Just One. Read It.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the immeasurable grief. Don't look away. 

Saturday Stories: Sweden's Failure, More For Kids, And What Does Endemic Mean

Andrew Nikiforuk, in The Tyee, on Sweden's deadly COVID failures (which are playing out now here all over North America) 

Nathaniel Basen, in TVO, interviews Janine McCready on what more we could be doing to protect children during and after this 6th wave.

 Eleanor Lutz and Amy Schoenfeld Walker, in The New York Times, with an explainer on a very misunderstood word - endemic

Saturday Stories: Normal?, Living?, Human Rights?

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, more politely asks how did normal expand to include kids dying from vaccine preventable diseases?

Bill Hanage, in The Guardian, explains what "learning to live with COVID" should mean. 

BC Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender's open letter to Minister of Health Bonnie Henry calling on her to reinstate the province's mask mandates as their removal increases inequities and runs counter to human rights.