What makes a good public health leader?

What makes a good public health leader?

  • Lyne Filiatrault, Arijit Chakravarty & David Fisman
154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines

154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines

  • Nature
Using a study design from the past, researchers once again show COVID is airborne

Using a study design from the past, researchers once again show COVID is airborne

  • CIDRAP
RFK Jr.’s purge of FDA staff spares people working on COVID vaccine lawsuits

RFK Jr.’s purge of FDA staff spares people working on COVID vaccine lawsuits

  • KFF Health News
Pharma giants push Trump insiders to target Canadian drug pricing

Pharma giants push Trump insiders to target Canadian drug pricing

  • Canada Healthwatch
  • Nick Tsergas
Invasive strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S., CDC study finds

Invasive strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S., CDC study finds

  • NBC News
Is COVID quietly sabotaging our immune systems?

Is COVID quietly sabotaging our immune systems?

  • Canadian Affairs
COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told.

COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told.

  • Flannery Dean
Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean kids are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents are trying to make the air safer, but hitting roadblocks.

Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean kids are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents are trying to make the air safer, but hitting roadblocks.

  • the Grind
COVID re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults: preprint

COVID re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults: preprint

  • CIDRAP
Five years later, B.C. among most supportive of COVID measures. Skepticism persists among Albertans, younger men

Five years later, B.C. among most supportive of COVID measures. Skepticism persists among Albertans, younger men

  • New Westminster Record
  • Mario Canseco
COVID may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year

COVID may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year

  • CIDRAP
Spring COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for some Albertans

Spring COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for some Albertans

  • CBC
COVID boosters help avoid breakthrough infections in immunocompromised people: study

COVID boosters help avoid breakthrough infections in immunocompromised people: study

  • McGill
Welcome to the Pre-School Plague Years
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Welcome to the Pre-School Plague Years

  • The New Yorker
  • Kathryn Schulz
Respiratory season ends, B.C. launching spring COVID vaccination campaign

Respiratory season ends, B.C. launching spring COVID vaccination campaign

  • Canadian Press
Supreme Court refuses to hear case about Saskatchewan's 2020–2021 COVID restrictions

Supreme Court refuses to hear case about Saskatchewan's 2020–2021 COVID restrictions

  • Regina Leader-Post
RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in COVID funding amid wave of top-level departures

RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in COVID funding amid wave of top-level departures

  • ars technica
Early use of sotrovimab may protect against long COVID

Early use of sotrovimab may protect against long COVID

  • CIDRAP
Long COVID office ‘will be closing,’ Trump regime announces

Long COVID office ‘will be closing,’ Trump regime announces

  • POLITICO
Spring dose of COVID vaccine available in Nova Scotia next week, for some

Spring dose of COVID vaccine available in Nova Scotia next week, for some

  • CBC
5 years after COVID started, parents and experts say the impact on kids remains

5 years after COVID started, parents and experts say the impact on kids remains

  • CBC
McMaster leads creation of Canada’s first guidelines for Long COVID

McMaster leads creation of Canada’s first guidelines for Long COVID

  • McMaster University
Japanese antiviral ensitrelvir shows promise in preventing household COVID spread

Japanese antiviral ensitrelvir shows promise in preventing household COVID spread

  • CIDRAP
Under the microscope: Looking at B.C.'s wastewater surveillance for viruses

Under the microscope: Looking at B.C.'s wastewater surveillance for viruses

  • CBC
Vancouver protesters ask for more funding, research into long COVID

Vancouver protesters ask for more funding, research into long COVID

  • CBC
'Not forgotten': Trial offers hope for long Covid sufferers, testing 5-day Remdesivir regimen as treatment

'Not forgotten': Trial offers hope for long Covid sufferers, testing 5-day Remdesivir regimen as treatment

  • ITV news
'It was life and death': McNeil, Strang reflect on early handling of COVID-19 pandemic

'It was life and death': McNeil, Strang reflect on early handling of COVID-19 pandemic

  • CBC

Lessons learned from a changing pandemic

  • Winnipeg Free Press
  • David McLaughlin
Study: MIS-C may be triggered by latent Epstein-Barr virus

Study: MIS-C may be triggered by latent Epstein-Barr virus

  • CIDRAP
We need to learn from COVID — before it's too late

We need to learn from COVID — before it's too late

Five years into an ongoing pandemic, we need to know how to face the next one.

  • Lyne Filiatrault, Arijit Chakravarty & T. Ryan Gregory
German spy agency concluded in 2020 that COVID likely leaked from Wuhan lab

German spy agency concluded in 2020 that COVID likely leaked from Wuhan lab

  • Reuters
5 years into the pandemic, COVID keeps mutating

5 years into the pandemic, COVID keeps mutating

  • npr
5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure

5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure

  • npr
Canada must step up as the global leader in pandemic preparedness

Canada must step up as the global leader in pandemic preparedness

  • Vancouver Sun
  • Dean A. Regier
Sask. alone in Western Canada in spurning COVID response review

Sask. alone in Western Canada in spurning COVID response review

  • Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  • Phil Tank
Federal government cancels deal with Novavax to make COVID vaccines in Montreal

Federal government cancels deal with Novavax to make COVID vaccines in Montreal

  • Montreal Gazette
Made-in-Canada inhaled COVID-19 vaccine begins phase-2 human trial at McMaster University

Made-in-Canada inhaled COVID-19 vaccine begins phase-2 human trial at McMaster University

  • McMaster University
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world

How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world

  • Blake Murdoch
Hindsight is 2020: Did Canada get the early response to the COVID-19 pandemic right?
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Hindsight is 2020: Did Canada get the early response to the COVID-19 pandemic right?

  • Globe and Mail
  • Andre Picard
A Clearer Picture of Covid’s Lasting Effects on the Body

A Clearer Picture of Covid’s Lasting Effects on the Body

  • The New York Times
US suspends free COVID test distribution program

US suspends free COVID test distribution program

  • Axios

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