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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Saturday Stories: Health-care Burnout and Rabbit Myxoma Virus

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Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on the realities of burnout in health-care Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, discusses the evolving v...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Saturday Stories: The New Variants And Long COVID's Potential Causes

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Betsy Ladyzhets, in TIME, tells you what we currently know about the newest crop of variants that can reinfect even those who've alread...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Saturday Story: Just One. You Don't Want Long COVID

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Rob Chaney, in the Missoulian, on the failures of risk calculus and the misery that can cause. 
Saturday, June 04, 2022

Saturday Stories: Again And Again, Undercounting, And Absolute Risk

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Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on getting COVID again and again and again . Melody Schreiber, in The Guardian, on the dangers of actively...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

Saturday Stories: Monkeypox Messaging, Nasal Vaccines, and Long COVID Messaging

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Helen Branswell, in STAT, on Monkeypox messaging amidst stigma and unknowns . Akiko Iwasaki, in The New York Times, on the promise of nasal ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Saturday Stories: Kid Myths, Monkeypox, and Healthcare

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Mark Kline, in The Advocate,  on kids’ COVID myths. Ed Yong, in The Atlantic,  on Monkeypox. Ed Yong, in The Atlantic,  on healthcare’s deva...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Saturday Stories: Correlations, Trolling, And School Ventilation

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Nans Florens, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Jérôme Barriere, Eric Billy, Fabrice Frank, Véronique Saada, Alexander Samuel, Barbara Seitz-Polski, K...
Saturday, May 07, 2022

Saturday Stories: Not Over, Pandemic Coverage, And Childhood Hepatitis

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H. Holden Thorp, in Science, on how it ain't over until it's over and the failures of governments that pretend otherwise.  Ed Yong, ...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Saturday Stories: Great Barrington's Failure, and The Pandemicine

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Orac, in Respectful Insolence, on the baked in failure of the Great Barrington Declaration . Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how climate change...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

Saturday Stories: Unused Tools, Unsolved Mysteries, and UVC

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Selena Simmons-Duffin, in NPR, drawing from HIV to explain how having the tools to beat a virus isn't the same thing as using them. STAT...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Saturday Story: Just One. Read It.

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Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the immeasurable grief. Don't look away. 
Saturday, April 09, 2022

Saturday Stories: Sweden's Failure, More For Kids, And What Does Endemic Mean

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Andrew Nikiforuk, in The Tyee, on Sweden's deadly COVID failures (which are playing out now here all over North America)  Nathaniel Base...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Saturday Stories: Normal?, Living?, Human Rights?

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Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, more politely asks how did normal expand to include kids dying from vaccine preventable diseases...
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...
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