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High risk jobs, superspreading more common, Trump voters won’t distance, and more in my weekly round-up of pandemic science for The Tyee.

Long-lived chemicals that were banned years or even decades ago in the U.S. and Canada are still turning up in the bodies of fish and migrating…

Masks could save hundreds of thousands of lives, pooled testing could save money, and introducing “Mr. Deadly COVID-19” in my weekly roundup of pandemic science for The…

On Sept 28, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s targeted synthetic drug tofacitinib (Xeljanz) for the treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis.…

Americans think big government is good now, the protective effect of type O blood, and the willingness to get vaccinated are all covered in my weekly…

The acceptability of less rigorous vaccine testing, a passing grade for government, and how information sources affect pandemic behaviour in this week’s roundup of COVID-19 science…