This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on the lives lost to COVID-19 in Ontario workplaces and the deliberate choice by employers and governments to enable that outcome. And Carly Weeks reports that children’s hospitals are having to brace for yet another wave of respiratory illnesses
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Claire Sibonney talks to Colin Furness about the cell dysregulation which looks to produce many of the most dangerous effects of long COVID. Sabrina Moreno discusses the connection between COVID-19 and a rising number of maternal deaths. And Betsy Ladyzhets offers suggestions for people
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – SBS News reports on the WHO’s warning that not only is the COVID-19 pandemic far from over, but cases are spiking globally. And Mike Lapointe reports on the work of at least some political leaders – notably including NDP MP Don Davies –
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Assorted content to end your week. – Benjamin Mazer writes that of all the other public health analogies, COVID-19 may prove most similar to smoking in the systematic failure of governments to take readily-available steps to prevent widespread harm. Beth Mole reports on research showing that COVID was the leading
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Adeel Hassan reports on the dominance of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains in the U.S. Phil Tank reminds us of the folly of the Moe government’s admonition that people should assess their own risk even while actively suppressing the data which could
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devi Sridhar writes that a responsible plan for the impending COVID wave would involve masking, improved ventilation, booster shots and a plan for the growing scourge of long COVID – even as most Canadian provinces range from uninterested to hostile toward anything of
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Dayen discusses how manufacturing monopolies have produced the U.S.’ shortage of baby formula. And Alyssa Rosenberg recognizes that any reasonably-governed country would be moving heaven and earth to ensure infants don’t suffer due to corporate greed. – Meanwhile, Nina Lakhani exposes how meat
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Smriti Mallapaty reports on new research indicating that a two-thirds of U.S. children short of vaccination eligibility have been infected with COVID-19. Hannah Farrow reports on the U.S.’ preparations for another wave this fall and winter (even as Congress refuses to fund
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Delphine Strauss and Jamie Smyth highlight how long COVID is already preventing millions of people from working – with far more likely to face the same fate due to governments’ mass infection strategies. Emily Leedham points out how Saskatchewan’s combination of sops to
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shiven Taneja writes about the glaring need to keep masking to avoid the spread of COVID-19 even if governments have abandoned their role in ensuring that happens. Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how public health strategies built around herd immunity through natural infection were
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes that the U.S.’ Omicron COVID wave looks far more severe than Europe’s – even if it isn’t being met with any meaningful policy response. Chuck Wendig criticizes the inexcusable choice of so many governments to let COVID win rather than
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dr. Katharine Smart highlights the crucial choices which need to be made to avoid a calamitous fifth COVID-19 wave, while Chelsea Nash writes that the most important failings from previous waves have been those of the people with power to make decisions
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Lipsitch et al. examine the current state of knowledge about COVID breakthrough infections and the public health measures still needed to avoid them. Kenyon Wallace and Ed Tubb highlight the dangers of new waves of deadly viral spread in long-term care homes which
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bruce Arthur warns that the worst of the COVID pandemic may be just around the corner as the far more transmissible Omicron variant spreads throughout Canada, while Karen-Marie Elah Perry and Shila Avissa discuss the perpetual gaslighting effort aimed at persuading us the
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera reports on the Moe government’s full awareness that their elimination of public health measures would produce exactly the spike in cases and calamity for Saskatchewan’s health-care system that have developed this fall. And Allison Bamford reports on the warnings from doctors
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sarath Peiris discusses how Saskatchewan shouldn’t be anything but embarrassed by Scott Moe’s utter failure to look out for public health in the midst of a pandemic. And Theresa Kliem interviews Steven Lewis about the dire projections – even before the province made
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danny Westneat discusses Steven Taylor’s work on the psychology of pandemics which has proven prescient as we’ve responded to COVID-19. And Umair Haque writes that people are understandably burned out on collapse – even as there’s little prospect of some of the slow-motion
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Assorted content to end your week. – BBC News reports on the record COVID numbers arising in Scotland, while Josh Lynn and Carla Shynkaruk report on Charlie Clark’s call for vaccine passports as the fourth wave slams into Saskatoon. Gary Mason discusses how overly-reluctant governments are needing to be pressured
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Rhianna Schmunk reports on British Columbia’s application of a reinstated mask mandate. And Cameron MacLean reports on Manitoba’s plan for both mask and vaccine requirements. But Adam Hunter finds no willingness whatsoever from the Moe government to acknowledge the cresting fourth wave, or
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lauren Pullen reports on two outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19 within a Calgary hospital. Emily Mertz reports on a push by Alberta doctors to have the province’s major cities retain mask mandates until more people are fully vaccinated after the
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