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Medscape

Chief Medical Officer Was Silenced in Canada’s Residential Schools

Brian Owens Oct 1, 2021

The discovery in recent months of more than 1,300 unmarked graves at the sites of former indigenous residential schools in Canada has brought an ugly chapter…

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Medscape

Flu Shot Highly Recommended This Year

Brian Owens Sep 29, 2021

With the Delta variant of COVID-19 still raging in the United States and intensive care units in parts of the country filled with patients with the…

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The Tyee

Science Is Messy, Iterative and Amazing. And More Pandemic Lessons

Brian Owens Sep 14, 2021

What I learned from 18 months of “doing my own research”. My final column of pandemic science for The Tyee.

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The Tyee

A Case Study of BC’s Lockdown. And More Science Journal News

Brian Owens Sep 7, 2021

Balancing health and the economy in lockdown, sea air reduces transmission, and teachers in Scotland weren’t at higher risk of infection in this week’s roundup of…

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The Tyee

Brain Over-Zoomed? Kill the Camera. And More Science News

Brian Owens Aug 31, 2021

Vaccine immunity wanes, symptomatic patients are more contagious, and masking instruments prevents transmission in this week’s roundup of pandemic science for The Tyee.

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The Tyee

No COVID Spread at Open-Air Football Games With Limited, Masked Attendance

Brian Owens Aug 24, 2021

The dangers of vaccine stockpiling, vaccine antibodies can neutralize Delta, and aerosols are more infectious than contaminated surfaces in this week’s roundup of pandemic science for The…

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