Saturday Stories: I Want My Far-UV, Japan, And Long COVID Doc Testimony

Chris Baraniuk, in the Atlantic, on the promise that are far-UV lamps for this and all future pandemics and airborne pathogens. They can't come fast enough. 

Philip Schellekens, in pandemic, on the difference in approaches between the G7 countries with the highest (US) and lowest (Japan) COVID death rates.

Tara De Boer, in Macleans, interviews Dr. Angela Cheung on her experiences working in one of Canada's new long COVID clinics

Saturday Stories: Nihilism, Warning Signs, and Mass Infections

Nate Holdren, in Bill of Health, on Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil

Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, on our upcoming "post-pandemic" winter.

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, on the ethics of the mass infection of unvaccinated young people.

Saturday Stories: Clean Air, History Repeating, and Joe Lunn

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 failure on COVID means this is all certain to happen again. Ed reported on Twitter that he'll be taking a 6 month hiatus. His voice will be dearly missed.

Heather Kitching, for CBC News, tells us the tragic tale of Joe Lunn, the heart transplant recipient who spoke out with his fear that he would die consequent to the province abandoning even the most basic of protections, who died of COVID.

Saturday Stories: Hubris, Value, and The New Boosters

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

Alicia Puglionesi, in The Yale Review, on whose deaths we value.

Edward Nirenberg, in Deplatform Disease, with what we do and don't know about the new COVID booster shots.

Saturday Stories: Brain Fog, Dingbats, and Failures

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a tremendous piece on COVID brain fog.

Jonathan Jarry, in McGill's Office for Science and Society, explores Eric Feigl-Ding's monetized alarmism.

Jefferey D. Sachs and more professors than I can list, in The Lancet, present The Lancet's commission findings detailing the ways the world has failed its pandemic response and suggestions moving forward.

Saturday Stories: Unmasked Doctors, and COVID orphans

Megan Molteni, in STAT, on unmasked doctors infecting their vulnerable patients.

Susan Hillis, Joel-Pascal, Ntwali N’konzi, and William Msemburi, in JAMA, on the 10.5 million children who have experienced orphanhood and.caregiver loss consequent to just a cold

Saturday Story: Post-COVID Illness

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

Saturday Story: The Doctors Who Have Declared The Pandemic Over, Over And Over Again, And Meeting People Where They Are

March 11th, 2021

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, on doctors who have declared the pandemic over, over and over again (and there are many more of these of course including here in my home town)

Daniel Goldberg, in Bill of Health, on the dangerous fallacy of public health meeting people where they are. 

Saturday Story: Stop Talking About COVID Fatigue

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 rationale for giving up. 

Saturday Stories: Long COVID Numbers, MonkeyPox, And How One School Managed To Avoid COVID Entirely

Gideon M-K, in Medium, explores the numbers surrounding Long COVID.

Kai Kupferschmidt, in The New York Times, on fighting Monkeypox without homophobia.

Abrome, a small school in Texas whose viral Twitter thread was reprinted in the Tasmanian Times, on how their school has avoided COVID from the get-go.