Saturday Stories: Those Clowns Said Whatnow, and Public Health

Orac, in Respectful Insolence, discusses John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad and their latest edition of did  they really actually write that?

Eleanor Cummins, in Wired, on what has become of public health.

Saturday Stories: Dispatch From The ER, and What Comes After Omicron

Liza Agrba, in Macleans, interviews ER doc Kashif Pirzada on Canada's ER crisis. 

Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, on what comes next after Omicron

Saturday Stories: Variant Proof Vaccines, Whose Breath Are You Breathing, and BA.5

Hilda Bastien, in Absolutely Maybe, gives us a hopeful update on the state of variant proof Coronavirus vaccines

Farah Hancock, in RNZ, with a terrific read on how to determine how much of whose breath are you breathing?

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with essential reading on BA.5 and what it means.

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Saturday Stories: Pretending and Multiwave Pandemics

Stephen Reicher, in The Guardian, explains how pretending we're doing with COVID will only make this pandemic last longer, it'll weaken the chances of our successfully dealing with the next one. 

Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Corentin Cot and Francesco Sannino, in Nature, on how to tame multiwave pandemics (like COVID)

Saturday Stories: What Now?

Ed Yong, in the Atlantic, ponders what we should be doing now?