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The Lone Ranger in Covid Town | BPS
The Lone Ranger in Covid Town | BPS
Dr Aspa Paltoglou (pictured), a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, on continuing to take pandemic precautions.
The Lone Ranger in Covid Town | BPS
What If the Covid Safety Net Had Been a Starting Point For Change?
What If the Covid Safety Net Had Been a Starting Point For Change?
What if the pandemic safety net cobbled together in 2020 had been a new beginning? What if when Joe Biden came into office in 2021, the Covid-19 safety net he was handed had become a new floor? Wha…
What If the Covid Safety Net Had Been a Starting Point For Change?
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
A mental health professional gives reasons why someone might still wear a mask when the pandemic is over and answers whether it is because of anxiety or fear.
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED
The distinction between droplet and airborne transmission has enormous consequences. To combat droplets, a leading precaution is to wash hands frequently with soap and water. To fight infectious aerosols, the air itself is the enemy. In hospitals, that means expensive isolation wards and N95 masks for all medical staff.
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED
The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings | The BMJ
The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings | The BMJ
"In conclusion, there is ample evidence on the effectiveness of masks and respirators in community and healthcare settings to inform consistent policy.32 Respirators are superior and should be the first choice in a serious emerging epidemic or pandemic in healthcare and aged care settings."
The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings | The BMJ
COVID science and post-truth policy at Canadian universities
COVID science and post-truth policy at Canadian universities
Universities are supposedly society’s proponents of evidence-based decision making. And yet, increasingly we’re seeing university administrators citing scholarship when it supports predetermined positions and ignoring that scholarship when it proves inconvenient to economic and political goals. Are university leaders undermining the credibility of the institutions they are charged with leading?
COVID science and post-truth policy at Canadian universities
Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?
Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?
Raia Small on why the left in the United States and Canada has struggled to mount an effective response to the pandemic’s catastrophes, and where we might go from here.
Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
We will not trade disabled deaths for abled life. We will not allow disabled people to be disposable or the necessary collateral damage for the status quo. We will not look away from the mass illness and death that surrounds us or from a state machine that is more committed to churning out profit and privileged comfort with eugenic abandonment.
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
Mask Off
Mask Off
The end of the last remaining Covid protections deepens the categorical exclusion of the vulnerable.
Mask Off
Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism
Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism
Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism   Christine Mitchell   I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation as w…
Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism
COVID survivors may develop dementia | NATURE
COVID survivors may develop dementia | NATURE
COVID-19 survivors show signs of significant cognitive deficits which could become dementia even a year after having the virus1. They also have an increased risk of depression, anxiety and disrupted sleep.
COVID survivors may develop dementia | NATURE
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and Topol explore our knowledge of long COVID and highlight key findings, including potential mechanisms, the overlap with other conditions and potential treatments. They also discuss challenges and recommendations for long COVID research and care.
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology
China Survey Says Up to 30% of Adults Felt Long Covid Symptoms
China Survey Says Up to 30% of Adults Felt Long Covid Symptoms
Up to three in every 10 Chinese adults experienced long Covid symptoms in a survey of more than 70,000 residents, offering rare insight into the scale of lingering issues plaguing the country’s 1.4 billion people well after the dismantling of pandemic curbs triggered a case surge.
China Survey Says Up to 30% of Adults Felt Long Covid Symptoms
Dealing with the Fallout: Office of Chief Science Advisor of Canada
Dealing with the Fallout: Office of Chief Science Advisor of Canada

"The ongoing risk of infection and subsequent acute and chronic illness is not negligible. The SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to circulate with evolving variants of concern .... with each SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, the risk of developing [Long Covid] is cumulative. That means two infections carry a greater risk than one infection and the risk after three infections is larger than after two infections. As of June 20234, two out of three Canadians had at least on COVID-19 infection and one in five Canadians had been infected multiple times."

Dealing with the Fallout: Office of Chief Science Advisor of Canada
Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered - WHN
Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered - WHN
Picture a typical family gathering today. Most people have moved on from masking: kids run around freely, aunts and uncles chat over snacks, and only a couple of family members still choose to wear well-fitted masks. Soon, the questions start rolling in: “Isn’t the pandemic over?” “Aren’t you done with masks yet?” “But you’re not … Continued
Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered - WHN