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Saturday, August 28, 2021

Saturday Stories: The Next Variant, Vaccination Realities, And Medical Exemptions

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Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, on the next worse variant. Helen Branswell, in STAT, discusses the Delta tuned realities of vaccination Omar ...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Saturday Stories: Masks And Children, Protecting Unvaccinated Kids, And What's Safe To Do?

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Judith Danovitch, in The New York Times, on how masks might help your children to learn. Lael M. Yonker and Anthony J. Fischer, in Time, on ...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Saturday Stories: When For the Under 12s, The End of Ivermectin, Delta and Kids, And Now What

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Rachel Gutman, in The Atlantic, on the timeline and process to see the vaccines approved for kids under 12. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Mediu...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Saturday Stories: Canada's 4th Wave and Canada's Failed Emergency Brake

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Brooks Fallis, in The Globe and Mail, on how Canada won't be able to vaccinate itself out of a fourth wave and what we'll need to do...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Saturday Stories: Children, Long COVID Post Breakthrough Infections, And Vaccine Mandates

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Devi Sridhar, in The Guardian, on whether COVID will become a disease of the young.  Katelyn Jetelina, in Your Local Epidemiologist, discuss...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Saturday Stories: UK Virus Factory, Canadian Vaccination Mandates, And Masking While Vaccinated

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Philip Ball, in Nature, on how the UK's COVID Freedom Day and dropping of restrictions risks incubating far worse variants that will ris...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Saturday Stories: Myocarditis, Breakthrough Infections, and Ivermectin Fraud

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Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, explores myocarditis and spin with the mRNA vaccines. Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on how t...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Saturday Stories: Kids, New Zealand, And More Kids

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Jeremy Samuel Faust, Katie Dickerson Mayes and CĂ©line Gounder, in The New York Times, with  more on the risk of COVID to kids and how ultima...
Saturday, July 03, 2021

Saturday Stories: Base Rate Bias, Weight Bias, And The Future of Ventilation

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Katelyn Jetelina, in Your Local Epidemiologist, explains base rate bias by way of Israel, Delta, and 50% of cases being found in those alrea...
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...
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