Saturday, January 30, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccines Alone Aren't Enough, Women And Vaccines, Why Every Country Should Be Aiming At #COVIDZero, J&J And Novavax

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Angela Rasmussen, in Slate, on how we can't rely on vaccines alone to end this pandemic (this is especially true right now in Canada wh...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Saturday Stories: Anti-Vaxxer COVID Playbook, A Potentially Scarier Variant, And Ontario's Abysmal Response To Date

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Scott Gavura, in Science Based Medicine, on t he anti-vaxx campaign to erode confidence in COVID vaccines. Julia Belluz and Umair Irfan, in ...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Saturday Stories: The Myths Of Pandemic Fatigue, COVID Is Absolutely Controllable, And On Being A Female Expert

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If you're not already following Dr. Popescu, you should be . Stephen Reicher and John Drury, in the BMJ, on how adherence to COVID recom...
Saturday, January 09, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccination, Variants, and Lockdowns

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Daniela J. Lamas, in The New York Times, reflects as a front line physician on her vaccination. Julia Belluz in Vox, on the new COVID varian...
Saturday, January 02, 2021

Saturday Stories: Year Two And The New Strain

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a typically phenomenal piece (and sadly the last he'll be writing for a while as he finishes up a book) w...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Saturday Stories: Bill Gates' Hopeful Thoughts, COVID Mythbusting, And #COVIDZero

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Bill Gates, in his blog GatesNotes, explains the science of why 2021 promises many more advances in the treatment and prevention of COVID an...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Saturday Stories: Caring For Patients With COVID, Side Effects, And Science

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Olivia Veira and Joshua M. Sharfstein, in JAMA, with a roundup of healthcare workers' candid thoughts on caring for patients with COVID....
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Saturday Stories: How Pfizer's Vaccine Works, School Closures And Life Expectancies, And Your Place In The Vaccination Line

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Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, explain how the Pfizer vaccine will work inside of your body. Melissa Davey, in The G...
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Saturday Stories: What We Should Be Doing While Awaiting Vaccines, How To Make The Best Of Vaccines, And Our Shameful Failure With Our Racialized Neighbourhoods

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Zain Chagla, Sumon Chakrabarti, Isaac Bogoch and Lynora Saxinger, in The National Post, on what we should be doing with vaccines on the hori...
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 ?