Through the Fog

The Ontario Health Coalition put out a press release a couple weeks ago about the sharp increase in people infected with measles here…

Jon Douglas, who wrote In It for the Long Haul, shared a series of papers that were discussed at the Conference on Retroviruses and…

David Wallace-Wells has a piece in the New York Times about hitting the five-year mark with Covid (although it started in 2019, and the…

I’m referring to Canadian Conservatives, specifically. If we want to make sure we have access to the kind of healthcare Canadians are used…

Some people are working hard to believe this level of illness, getting sick several times each year, has always been the case. The latest…

Literally years ago, as a trustee around February of 2023, I noticed that the CO2 monitor testing proposal that was ratified had a sneaky…

Anonymous is urging me to move on away from precautions and towards prior norms of society in a string of comments on a previous post. I…

Two competing claims were made in the past few days on whether Long Covid should be a concern for parents of children or if children…

If an attractive person flirted with you, but then mentioned, just by the way, “I’ve been sexually active with someone with chlamydia, but…

We’ve survived 2024, but excess mortality compared to pre-pandemic rates is quite high for young adults (18–44), and in school-aged kids…

Yet another study indicates the brain is negatively affected by Covid, yet we’re still okay with children getting it repeatedly.

Dr. Tedros said this in the WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at Tuesday’s media briefing where he also suggested that over 20 million…

These are my summary notes from this excellent podcast from Andrea Pitzer on Next Comes What, “How We Survive This Mess.”

I was confronted yesterday with the ubiquitous claim, “Lockdowns destroyed kid’s ability to socialize. Now they’re committing suicide…

We carry propaganda machines in our pockets. Propaganda isn’t just to misinform, but to distract us and exhaust the capacity for critical…

Bird Flu is still not officially a pandemic concern, but there are some convincing arguments that it should be:

There are tons of explanations for it. Here’s a roundup of a few perspectives that helped me wrap my head around it all.

Lots of people still really don’t believe that some people have had their lives destroyed by Long Covid, and that they might too. And their…

What do smoking, drinking, rollercoasters, and Covid have in common? They should all be avoided during pregnancy.

BC’s deputy provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, actually announced to the public, “If you’ve had Covid recently, you’ve had a…

Arijit Chakravarty is a biologist who uses biotech and math to understand and write about Covid. He wrote a very long thread that I’ll…

…but destroying the environment and likely killing some cyclists in the process. That’s Doug Ford’s new Bill 212: Reducing Gridlock, Saving…