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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccinating Kids, Ivermectin, and Novavax

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Edward Nirenberg, Daniel A. Freedman, Risa Hoshino, Jonathan Howard, and Alastair McAlpine,  in BMJ Blogs, on vaccinating kids vs. COVID.  A...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Saturday Stories: Delta, Ventilation, and Childhood COVID

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Jennifer Yang and Kenyon Wallace, in The Toronto Star, on how cities, provinces and countries awash in vaccines can still mess things up if ...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

Saturday Stories: Not Individuals, And Long COVID And Kids

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how health, including during pandemics, cannot be framed as a matter of individual/personal choice. Elizabeth C...
Saturday, June 05, 2021

Saturday Stories: The Finish Line and Microchips

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Jessica Smith-Cross, in QP Briefing, on Ontario's (and really everywhere's) COVID finish line .  James Heathers, in The Atlantic, po...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Saturday Stories: The Latest Scary Variant, Systematic Evidence, And Lab Leaks

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John Michael McGrath, for TVO, on what we do and don't know about the latest scary variant B.1.617 Hilda Bastian, in her blog Absolutely...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Saturday Stories: They Were Loved

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More than 25,000 Canadians have been lost to COVID-19 (and terrible governance given the bulk of those deaths were preventable), Macleans is...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccinating Kids, Hatred And COVID

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Gideon M-K, in Medium, on whether or not we should be vaccinating kids against the coronavirus (tl;dr - yes)  Bernie Farber and David Fisman...
Saturday, May 08, 2021

Saturday Stories: Blood Clots, NNTs, And Incentives

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Kai Kupferschmidt and Gretchen Vogel, in Science, explore the future of vaccines with rare risks of blood clots. Andrew Althouse, in Medscap...
Saturday, May 01, 2021

Saturday Stories: One Universal Coronavirus Vaccine, Fringe Science, And The Misnomer Of Vaccine Hesitancy

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James Hamblin, in the Atlantic, on the promise of a single coronavirus vaccine which would protect us against SARS, MERS, COVID-19, and ever...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Saturday Stories: Unanswered Questions, Ontario's Misery, And Vietnam's Triumph

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Helen Branswell, in STAT, with the questions experts still have about COVID . Justin Ling, in Macleans, with the almost unbelievable story ...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Saturday Stories: Is Canada a Country, The Gaslighting of Science, And A Non-COVID Piece From Me

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes, in The Line, reflecting on Canada's responses to COVID wonders if we are actually a country? Zeynep, in Insight, o...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Saturday Stories: The End Of Year One, The End Of Hygiene Theatre, And The End Of The Whole Thing

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Stephen Maher, in Macleans, with the comprehensive story of Canada's first year with the pandemic. Emily Anthes, in The New York Times, ...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Saturday Stories: Anti-Science, The Pandemic's Wrongest Man, And The Not Great Indoors

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Dangerous numpty. If you see, ignore. Peter Hotez, in Scientific American, on the anti-science movement and the danger it poses to global pu...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccine Passports, Canadian Vaccine Manufacturing, and Not Delaying Vaccine Boosters For The Vulnerable

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Saskia Popescu and Alexandra Phelan, in The New York Times, discuss the unwieldy realities that vaccine passports might face.  Leslie Boehm ...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Saturday Stories: Africa's Incredible COVID Supply Chain, On AstraZeneca's Vaccine, And Asymptomatic Transmission

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Javed Anees, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Reid Wilson, in The Hill, on the world leading way in which Africa approached COVID treatment and pr...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccines For Longhaulers, EMT Reflections, And Societal Reopening

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Akiko Iwasaki, in Medium, on how vaccination might help COVID longhaulers . Jennifer Murphy, in The New York Times, reflects on her experien...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

Saturday Stories: Windows, Mindestabstandsregelung, And Anti-Racist COVID Responses

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Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on the forgotten power of windows in a pandemic . Luisa Beck, in The Washington Post, on the 1,200 new German ...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

Saturday Stories: Vaccines Will Work, The Vaccine Whisperer Hilda Bastian, And The Secret Life of SARs-CoV2

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Angela L. Rasmussen, in the New York Times, explains how yes, the vaccines will work to stop the spread. Julia Belluz, in Vox, interviews th...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Saturday Stories: Which Vaccine Should You Get, And Summertime

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Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in The Guardian, discusses which vaccine you should get. James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on what summer might look l...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Saturday Stories: No Herd Immunity Without Vaccines, Hygiene Theatre, And Sleepwalking Into Disaster

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Michaeleen Doucleff, in NPR, explains how a small town in Brazil has tragically shown us that without vaccines, herd immunity is impossible....
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