Difficult to believe that I started posting on this blog 17 years ago. 3,614 blog posts later and I think it's time to get some new digs...

Too many medical organizations to list pen an open letter to President Biden illustrating what care is like in hospitals that are beyond cap...

Mun-Keat Looi,  Elisabeth Mahase, in the BMJ, ask is COVID is getting milder (spoiler, no)  A collection of scientists from around the world...

Steven Novella, in Science Based Medicine, on the coming subvariants Marina Del Rios, Nathan T. Chomilo and Neil A. Lewis, Jr., in STAT, on ...

Gregg Gonsalves, in The Nation, with his call to rescue public health from the death eaters of neutrality.  Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Michae...

Chris Baraniuk, in the Atlantic, on the promise that are far-UV lamps  for this and all future pandemics and airborne pathogens. They can...

Nate Holdren, in Bill of Health, on  Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, on our upcomi...

Nina Notman, in Chemistry World, on whether we can clean our indoor air . Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a must read piece on how our failur...

Andrew Nikiforuk, in The Tyee, on what led one fit COVID minimizing immunologist to drop his hubris (spoiler, it was post COVID congestive h...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a tremendous piece on COVID brain fog. Jonathan Jarry, in McGill's Office for Science and Society, explor...

Megan Molteni, in STAT, on unmasked doctors infecting their vulnerable patients. Susan Hillis, Joel-Pascal, Ntwali N’konzi, and William Msem...

Sarah Neville, in The Financial Times, on the post-COVID tsunami of illness we may well face as a consequence of letting it rip.

March 11th, 2021 Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, on doctors who have declared the pandemic over, over and over again (and there ...

Martha Lincoln, in The Nation, on how we're never getting out of this so long as we keep leaning on "COVID fatigue" as our rat...

Gideon M-K, in Medium, explores the numbers surrounding Long COVID. Kai Kupferschmidt, in The New York Times, on fighting Monkeypox without...

Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the superbug surge the pandemic has fueled.  Saima May Sidik, in Nature, on everything we now know about heart d...

Orac, in Respectful Insolence, discusses  John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad and their latest edition of did  they really actually write that? ...

Liza Agrba, in Macleans, interviews ER doc Kashif Pirzada on Canada's ER crisis.  Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, on what comes next afte...

Hilda Bastien, in Absolutely Maybe, gives us a hopeful update on the state of variant proof Coronavirus vaccines Farah Hancock, in RNZ, with...

Stephen Reicher, in The Guardian, explains how pretending we're doing with COVID will only make this pandemic last longer, it'll wea...