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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. This platform, the Blogger platform, has been great, but it's not being updated, it's clunky, and I think it's time to move to the new pasture over at Substack where I may also try adding in some podcasting and getting back to writing. The thing about writing right now - truthfully I find it challenging to consider in the context of the pandemic. It feels unimportant in comparison which is why I've been using this platform to provide you with what I feel i ..read more

Too many medical organizations to list pen an open letter to President Biden illustrating what care is like in hospitals that are beyond capacity. Same issues here in Canada, and if you're not in healthcare, you should absolutely take the time to read to understand what your care might be like if you need it. Also, it's still Movember! If you'd like to donate to my fundraising efforts, you can do so here!  Finally, I may start a slow transition over to Substack. Blogger (this plaftorm) is very clunky and I'd be surprised if there was much if any work being done to maintain or im ..read more

Mun-Keat Looi,  Elisabeth Mahase, in the BMJ, ask is COVID is getting milder (spoiler, no)  A collection of scientists from around the world, in Nature, publish a multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat (spoiler, we know what we need to do, we're just not doing it) Also, it's that time of year again. If you find my posts (here or on social media) in any way helpful, please consider donating to my Movember efforts (this year I'm trying to channel my inner Simon from The Walking Dead as that seems apropos)       Rela ..read more

Steven Novella, in Science Based Medicine, on the coming subvariants Marina Del Rios, Nathan T. Chomilo and Neil A. Lewis, Jr., in STAT, on the racial inequities of our COVID response.       Related Stories Saturday Stories: Death Eaters And Unfollowed Advice Saturday Stories: I Want My Far-UV, Japan, And Long COVID Doc Testimony Saturday Stories: Nihilism, Warning Signs, and Mass Infections   ..read more

Gregg Gonsalves, in The Nation, with his call to rescue public health from the death eaters of neutrality.  Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Michaels, Rick Bright and Michael T. Osterholm, in the New York Times, on the unheeded advice they provided President Biden as members of his COVID advisory board regarding the pandemic.        Related Stories Saturday Stories: I Want My Far-UV, Japan, And Long COVID Doc Testimony Saturday Stories: Nihilism, Warning Signs, and Mass Infections Saturday Stories: Clean Air, History Repeating, and Joe Lunn   ..read more

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       Related Stories Saturday Stories: Nihilism, Warning Signs, and Mass Infections Saturday Stories: Clean Air, History ..read more

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.       Related Stories Saturday Stories: Clean Air, History Repeating, and Joe Lunn Saturday Stories: Hubris, Value, and The New Boosters Saturday Stories: Brain Fog, Dingbats, and Failures   ..read more

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.       Related Stories Saturday Storie ..read more

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.       Related Stories Saturday Stories: Brain Fog, Dingbats, and Failures Saturday Stories: Unmasked Doctors, and COVID orphans Saturday Story: Post-COVID Illness   ..read more