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Saturday, November 28, 2020

Saturday Stories: Rapid Home Testing Could Save The Day, Pandemic Winter Rules To Rule Them All, And Yes, Kids Transmit COVID19

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Michael Mina, in TIME, on why he thinks  cheap, rapid, testing could dig us out of our holes long before vaccines start going into arms.  Ra...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

My #Movember Alex Trebek Tribute Moustache And Why I Almost Didn't Bother

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Plainly, 2020 has been an awful year. And I know that I haven't been blogging, but it just feels wrong to be writing about nutrition, me...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Saturday Stories: Antarctically Cold Vaccines, Cancelling Thanksgiving, And How Vermont Succeeded

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Selinia Simmons-Duffin, in NPR Shots, on why Pfizer's vaccine needs to be kept at temperatures lower than an Antarctic winter. James Ham...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Saturday Stories: We Know How To Control The Virus, There Is No Casedemic, And There Won't Be Natural Herd Immunity

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Tomas Pueyo, in Medium, explains what could be done by countries like Canada and the US to control the virus if they actually wanted to do s...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

Saturday Stories: Complacency's Price, and Minks

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Andre Picard, in The Globe and Mail, on the price we're paying for complacency with COVID. Helen Branswell, in STAT, with some reassuran...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Saturday Stories: The Election, The World Series, And The Expectations

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, predicts what the future of COVID in America will look like following a Biden or a Trump election win. Jeff Passan...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Saturday Stories: Respecting Uncertainty, Rapid Home Testing, And Herd Immunity

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George Davey Smith, Michael Blastland, and Marcus Munafò, in the BMJ, on how when it comes to COVID, certainty is a red flag. Amy McDermott,...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

RDs! We're Hiring! Looking To Fill A Full-Time Permanent Position With My New Venture Constant Health (Telecommuters Welcome!)

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Since 2004, Constant Health ’s expert team has been at the forefront behavioural weight management, and now, by leveraging the best that tec...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Saturday Stories: The Scamedemic, The "Great" Barrington Declaration, Sweden, And The John Snow Memorandum

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  Tony Scott, in SFGate, on how he used to call it the 'scamedemic'. He doesn't anymore.  Marc Lipsitch, Gregg Gonsalves, Carlos...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vitamin D, The New England Journal of Medicine, Toxic Masculinity, And Super-Spreading

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Gid M-K, in Medium, tells us what we do and don't know about Vitamin D and COVID The Editors of and in The New England Journal of Medici...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vaccine Chaos And What Did You Expect?

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Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on why vaccine chaos may be looming David Frum, also in The Atlantic, asks, what did you expect ?
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Saturday Stories: Vaccine Collaboration, Racism and COVID Coverage, and Nonsensical Athletes

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Julia Belluz, in Vox, on the 156 countries teaming up on a COVID vaccine (without the US and China) . Indi Samarajiva, in Medium, on the ove...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Saturday Stories: Considering Risk and Great Fences

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Aaron E. Carroll, in The New York Times, with a useful read on how most of us have been considering and responding to risk backwards. Tomá...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Saturday Stories: COVID Winter, Circular Errors, Mutations, And Obesity

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Irfan Dhalla, in The Globe and Mail, on COVID and the rapidly approaching Canadian winter. Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the recurrent erro...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

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Mark Earnest, in The New England Journal of Medicine, on becoming a plague doctor. James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on why herd immunity is...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Saturday Stories: Racist Pulse Oximeters, Convalescent Plasma Politics, Rapid Testing, And Immunity

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Amy Moran-Thomas, in Boston Review, on how pulse oximeters, integral to the care of a COVID19 patient, encode systemic racism. Craig Spenc...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Saturday Stories: 7 Months In, Magical Thinking, Long Haulers, And Weighing Kids In School

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Andrew Joseph, Helen Branswell, and Elizabeth Cooney, in STAT, review all that we currently know about COVID-19 and the pressing questions t...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Saturday Stories: Kids And School, The Immune System, Russian Vaccines, And Sharpies

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Zoë Hyde, in a pre-print in The Medical Journal of Australia, with  a review article covering what we do and don't know about the risks ...
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Saturday Story: Just One This Week. A Must Read If You Haven't Yet

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Ed Yong, in the Atlantic, with the sadly all too believable (yet still unbelievable) story of how SARS-CoV2 defeated America
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Canada's Obesity In Adults: A Clinical Practice Guideline, Released Today, A Huge Step Forward

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I'm proud to have played a small part in the release of today's Obesity In Adults: A Clinical Practice Guideline as it is the first...
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