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How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the transmission of flu?
Public health measures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 have also reduced transmission of flu — but this is not the year to blow off…
There’s So Much More To Explain About How Bodies Sense Pain
The medicine Nobel Prize recognized researchers studying how our bodies sense temperature and touch. Pain is much more complicated. This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or…
Chief Medical Officer Was Silenced in Canada’s Residential Schools
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…
Flu Shot Highly Recommended This Year
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…
Science Is Messy, Iterative and Amazing. And More Pandemic Lessons
What I learned from 18 months of “doing my own research”. My final column of pandemic science for The Tyee.
A Case Study of BC’s Lockdown. And More Science Journal News
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…