Stats Canada just posted a report on Long Covid. They highlight that the risk of long term symptoms is cumulative, increasing with the number of Covid infections. By three or more infections, 38% of people — more than a third of people — report long term symptoms. They also report…

“Many describe living in a sort of waking, powerless nightmare where an obvious catastrophe is unfolding but society just blithely ignores it.” That’s from this Guardian article from May 2022 that could have been written today, and possibly needs to be written every day to wake us up: “People have…

Covid updates from Ontario and Germany were in the news yesterday. But first, check out this graphic of tips for staying healthy over the holidays from the Canadian Covid-19 Hazard Index, one of the most amazing grassroots organizations we’ve got in Canada that actually tracks and reports on current levels…

Will re-branding Covid help people start acting to protect themselves from it? — Maybe we need an ad campaign to kick-start public health. …

Trying to convince universities to allow remote learning in maskless in-person classes and maybe to allow mini-HEPAs on the desk during exams appears to be futile despite the current risk level. Higher learning, my eye! — Why Universities Should Lead the Way Last July, two grad students from the University of Waterloo wrote an article explaining how “Universities can lead the clean indoor air revolution.”

For people, like Maria Van Kerkhove of the WHO, who think immunity debt or the immunity gap or whatever new name they give for it is the problem, this one’s for you! — Dr. Lisa Iannattone posted an excellent thread debunking the notion that keeping us all at home for a few months a few years ago has robbed us of ability to fight off illness. This is entirely from her thread: We’re in our 3rd post-lockdown viral respiratory season and admissions for…

How many inquiries do we need before Public Health kicks into gear again?? Wastewater in my area is hitting the tippy top of the graph, and that’s after the y-axis was doubled from 2 to 4 standardized concentration of SARS-CoV-2 gene copies. But we’re still carrying on as if everything’s…

This might be just the rebranding we need to change the script. — An Australian publication briefly had this headline: Why you don’t want to catch new Covid:

Sunday was the busiest day ever for air travel in the U.S. Almost 3 million people were screened at airports across the country. — Meanwhile, Gianluca Grimalda lost his job doing climate-change fieldwork because he refused to take a plane back to the office, choosing a much longer journey home that took weeks instead of hours. Time is money, Gianluca: tick tock. He wrote, “Aviation is the biggest contributor to climate change of all…