Saturday Stories: Bad Studies, 5-12s' Vaccinations, And Childism

James Heathers, in The Atlantic, on how the house of cards upon which ivermectin studies were built likely underpins much of science. 

Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, with a Q&A with pediatrician and vaccine researcher Sallie Permar about the vaccination of children. 

Nisreen A. Alwan, in the BMJ, on how childism during the pandemic has seen governments failing to protect children

Saturday Stories: Wellness Conspiracies, Libel Chill, And The Air We Breath

Eva Wiseman, in The Guardian, on the overlap between wellness/spirituality and conspiracy theories.

Stephanie Lee, in Buzzfeed, on how the world's most prominent hydroxychloroquine researcher/crusader is trying to punish one of the world's foremost scientific fraud detectives for pointing out his pants, and studies, were on fire. 

Linsey Marr, in The New York Times, on COVID, the flu, and the air we breath.

Saturday Stories: Nazi Analogies, They're Not Just Numbers, And Who Are The Unvaccinated

Arthur Caplan, in The Cancer Letter, on how Nazi analogies (and more specifically Vinay Prasad's) regarding COVID are imbecilic, ignorant, and dangerous.

Marie-Danielle Smith, in MacLeans, with the story of a family of 3 who like all of those we've lost from COVID, were not just numbers. 

Zeynep Tufekci, in The New York Times, explains how the unvaccinated may not be who you think they are. 

Saturday Stories: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Edition

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his own substack Kareem.Substack.com with two stories about vaccination and the NBA.

The first on why LeBron is wrong to support hesitancy

And the second on Andrew Wiggins' whining about getting vaccinated.

Saturday Stories: Airborne Silence, The Next Pandemic, And Fertility

Joe Vipond, Kashif Pirzada, and Danielle Cane, in The Toronto Star, on how Canada's culture of silence around airborne transmission has led to confusion and undoubtedly, to avoidable illness and death.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the lessons we should be employing from COVID as a means to deal with the inevitable next pandemic. 

Jen Gunter, in her substack The Vagenda, with everything you need to know on vaccinations and fertility

Saturday Stories: Our Biggest Failing, Anti-Vaxxers' Ongoing Radicalization, And Breakthrough Infectiousness

James Heathers, with a rare must read recommendation, in Medium, on how our biggest failing of the pandemic has been keeping it invisible. 

Ben Collins, in NBC News, on the rapid continuing radicalization of the anti-vaxxer movement

Craig Spencer, in The Atlantic, explains why vaccinated people are far less likely to spread the coronavirus

[And my latest in Medscape - did you hear? Eating an excess of calories doesn't cause obesity AND there's an amazing new paradigm? I did. Sigh.]

Saturday Stories: What Is VAERS, Alberta's Disaster, And Kindness Gaslighting

Meredith Wadman, in Science, explains what VAERS derived data is, why anti-vaxxers love it, and why it's wrong to use it as a dataset. 

Jason Markusoff, in MacLean's, on the disaster that is Alberta and the reason for it - the disaster that is Jason Kenney.

Jillian Hortin, in The Globe and Mail, on the kindness gaslighting of healthcare professionals.

Saturday Stories: Ending Respiratory Illnesses, Collapsing Medical Systems, And Sick Societies

Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on putting an end to all respiratory viruses (not just COVID)

Vishal Khetpal, in Slate, on the collapse of the American medical system.

Jay S. Kaufman, in The New York Times, explains how sick societies trump science and lead to avoidable failures

Saturday Stories: The Next Variant, Long-Haulers, And Waning Immunity

Olivia Goldhill, in STAT, on the race against the next worse variant.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how COVID long haulers are everyone's problem.

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with why you likely need not worry too much about your waning immunity.

Also, I wrote something for Medscape on that story you might have heard about where eating one hotdog apparently shortens your healthy life by 36 minutes

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

Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, on the next worse variant.

Helen Branswell, in STAT, discusses the Delta tuned realities of vaccination

Omar Mosleh, in the Toronto Star, on why you're probably not going to get a medical vaccination exemption

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

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 how we can protect unvaccinated kids.

Helen Branswell, in STAT, polled some epidemiologists about what they were and were not comfortable doing this summer.

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

Rachel Gutman, in The Atlantic, on the timeline and process to see the vaccines approved for kids under 12.

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Medium, on how though he hopes he's wrong, this latest study likely puts a nearly final nail in the coffin of horse dewormer ivermectin being useful with COVID.

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on the dangers of Delta for kids.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, reflecting on how Delta's changed the pandemic's endgame and now what?

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

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 to prevent it. 

Jillian Horton, in The Toronto Star, on Canada's broken (I'd argue cut) emergency brake and the failure of our politics and politicians.

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

Devi Sridhar, in The Guardian, on whether COVID will become a disease of the young. 

Katelyn Jetelina, in Your Local Epidemiologist, discusses the risk of long COVID even for those who are fully vaccinated. 

André Picard, in The Globe and Mail, makes his case for vaccine passports.

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

Philip Ball, in Nature, on how the UK's COVID Freedom Day and dropping of restrictions risks incubating far worse variants that will risk us all. 

Andrew Coyne, in The Globe and Mail, makes the clear case for vaccination mandates in Canada. 

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with a view that I share wholeheartedly on why she's still masking despite being fully vaccinated. 

Saturday Stories: Myocarditis, Breakthrough Infections, and Ivermectin Fraud

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, explores myocarditis and spin with the mRNA vaccines.

Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on how to understand breakthrough infections in the vaccinated. 

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Medium, covers the terrible, fraudulent research that's been used to promote ivermectin. 

Saturday Stories: Kids, New Zealand, And More Kids

Jeremy Samuel Faust, Katie Dickerson Mayes and Céline Gounder, in The New York Times, with more on the risk of COVID to kids and how ultimately the choice will be for them to eventually catch it, or get vaccinated. 

Tess McClure, in The Guardian, on New Zealand's ongoing successful refusal to live with COVID.

Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe, on what she sees as a dangerous trend towards exceptionalism in the COVID-Kids debate. 

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

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

Diana Duong, in the CMAJ, briefly interviews me regarding obesity, weight bias, and COVID.

Lidia Morawska, Joseph Allen, William Bahnfleth, Philomena M. Bluyssen, Atze Boerstra, Giorgio Buonanno, Junji Cao, Stephanie J. Dancer, Andres Floto, Francesco Franchimon, Trisha Greenhalgh, Charles Haworth, Jaap Hogeling, Christina Isaxon, Jose L. Jimenez, Jarek Kurnitski, Yuguo Li, Marcel Loomans, Guy Marks, Linsey C. Marr, Livio Mazzarella, Arsen Krikor Melikov, Shelly Miller, Donald K. Milton, William Nazaroff, Peter V. Nielsen, Catherine Noakes, Jordan Peccia, Kim Prather, Xavier Querol, Chandra Sekhar, Olli Seppänen, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Julian W. Tang, Raymond Tellier, Kwok Wai Tham, Pawel Wargocki, Aneta Wierzbicka, Maosheng Yao, in Science, on the paradigm shift needed to combat airborne respiratory infections.

Saturday Stories: Vaccinating Kids, Ivermectin, and Novavax

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

Anna Merlan, in Vice, on the invermectin conspiracy mongers. 

Hilda Bastien, in The Atlantic, on why Novavax might be the best vaccine we've got. 

Saturday Stories: Delta, Ventilation, and Childhood COVID

Jennifer Yang and Kenyon Wallace, in The Toronto Star, on how cities, provinces and countries awash in vaccines can still mess things up if they're not cautious with the Delta variant. 

Tavia Grant, in The Globe and Mail, on the need to address ventilation in workplaces.

Edward Nirenberg and Risa Hoshino, in Medpage Today, on COVID in childhood.