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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Saturday Stories: Tracking, Motivated Reasoning, And Normal's About To Be Tested

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The editorial board of Nature on the folly of stopping the tracking of COVID. Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman, in Protean, on the privileg...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Saturday Stories: Giving Up And Not Giving Up

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the disaster being wrought by governments giving up on COVID control.  The late and great Paul Farmer, in Noēma...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Saturday Stories: Numbness and Not Learning

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how we've become numb to the ongoing deaths. Zeynep Tufecki, in The New York Times, on the lessons we still...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

Saturday Story: Pandemic Response Can't Just Be Individual To Be Effective, And Focused Protection Is Bullshit

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Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, discusses the American shift to individualized COVID responses - a shift that is also being felt across mu...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Saturday Stories: How the #UrgencyOfNormal ignores the #UrgencyOfEquity

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Melody Schreiber, in The New Republic, on why the #UrgencyOfNormal cabal so badly want kids to be unmasked.  The #UrgencyOfEquity, which I s...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Saturday Stories: #Urgency of Normal Done With COVID x 3 And What To Do Post-Omicron

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how the #UrgencyofNormal/done with COVID talk condemns the immunocompromised Ramnath Subbaraman,  Michelle Holm...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Saturday Stories: Air, Hopium, And Kids' Masks

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Edward A. Nardell, in Time, on how to clean our indoor air. Gregg Gonsalves, in The Nation, on the dangers of hopium and wishful thinking on...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Saturday Stories: Endemicity's Meaninglessness, 1918's Flu, And Hospitals

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Jacob Stern and Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on the meaninglessness of endemicity. John M. Barry, in The New York Times, on learning fr...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Saturday Stories: Endemicity and Japan

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Aris Katzourakis, in Nature, on what the word endemic actually means Hitoshi Oshitani, in the New York Times, on what Japan got right in its...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Saturday Stories: Treating the Unvaccinated, Will Omicron Hasten Immunity, And Airborne COVID

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on why it's a terrible idea not to treat the unvaccinated. Katherine J. Wu, also in The Atlantic, on whether O...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Saturday Stories: The Great Surrender, It's Mild, It's So Mild, With COVID

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Chuck Wendig, in TerribleMinds, on our great surrender and how we let COVID win. Bruce Arthur, in The Toronto Star, on the myth of mild Omic...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Saturday Stories: America's COVID Rules, COVID fatigue, And Omicron Healthcare

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Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on the dumpster fire that is America's COVID rules  (and for Canadian readers, much overlap with ours...
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Saturday Stories: Omicron's Teaching, COVID's Teaching, And Teaching LeBron

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Andrew Joseph and Helen Branswell, in STAT, on the lessons we're learning from Omicron. More Helen Branswell, in STAT, on 10 lessons she...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Saturday Story: Again Just One And Again It's Omicron

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Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on how our response to Omicron to date represents all of our past mistakes on fa...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Saturday Story: Ed Yong on Omicron

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Ed Yong, the best science journalist of this pandemic, in the Atlantic, discusses Omicron and how we're definitely not ready for it . It...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Saturday Stories: Treating The Unvaccinated, Omicron, And Mildness

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Steven Novella, in Science Based Medicine, on why we cannot and should not withhold medical care from the unvaccinated.  Sarah Zhang, in The...
Saturday, December 04, 2021

Saturday Stories: Fitness and Health Aren't Enough, 3 Cheers For Our Immune Systems, And Omicron

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By Soupvector - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112983798 Sirin Kale, in The Guardian, with the life...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

In Yet Another Win, Bariatric Surgery Reduces Cancer Risk In Long Term Study

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Before you read any further know that I'm NOT a surgeon. I think it could be fairly argued that as far as surgical impact and benefits g...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Saturday Stories: Testing, Health Professional Long-haulers, And The Holocaust

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Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with everything you really should know about the various modalities of COVID testing. Ed Yong, also in The...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Every Diet Works For Someone, No Diet Works For Everyone, Diets Are Difficult - IF 2021 Edition

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Joining an ever increasing cavalcade of studies of different diets that demonstrate they all work as well or as poorly as one another comes ...
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