The Case for a Mandatory COVID-19 App
Given a choice between closing the mall to everyone or opening it and refusing entry to a few with an alert on their app, which is better?
Sean Welsh
· 8 min read
Health
A collection of 220 posts
Risk, Uncertainty, and COVID-19 Strategies
The current crisis has highlighted the risks associated with untamed uncertainty, as well as those associated with under- or overestimating the impact of measures intended to combat COVID-19.
Timo Ehrig and Nicolai J. Foss
· 12 min read
An ICU Doctor Reports From the Frontline
ICU nurses are some of the true heroes of this pandemic.
George Godfrey
· 8 min read
Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo
If we can overcome the taboos surrounding HCTs, they can become a game changer in combating the coronavirus and limiting its ruinous effects on countless lives.
William Wiebe
· 10 min read
PODCAST 89: Jennifer Abbasi on the Emerging Science of COVID-19 Antibody Testing
Jennifer Abbasi, associate managing editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), talks to Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests that may help stop the pandemic and save the lives of the already infected.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
PODCAST 88: Jonathan Kay on Covid Superspreaders
Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Italy and the EU: The Hard and Stony Road Ahead
Now, both its political class and its people face a much harder road—a hard, narrow, and stony one, to end a dependence sapping both Italy and Europe.
John Lloyd
· 11 min read
COVID-19's Gender Gap
This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.
John Barry
· 5 min read
Candace Owens Is Dangerously Misinformed about Vaccines
The idea that two of the most common and effective HPV vaccines in the world are “infertilizing poor colored children in Africa and India” is as absurd as it sounds.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Lessons in Death and Life from the Diaries of Samuel Pepys
In Pepys’s time a scarlet cross on the door denoted an infected household and sentinels stood guard outside to keep people inside.
Colin Fleming
· 8 min read
Searching for a COVID-19 Test in America
Most people were now wearing masks, and a few were obviously nervous about inadvertently drifting too close.
Diana Lambert
· 16 min read
Moral Injury and the Battle against COVID-19
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become the public face of such anxiety disorders.
James Jeffrey
· 7 min read
Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
Coleman Hughes
· 5 min read
For Gay Men Who Came of Age in the 1980s, a Grim Sense of Déja Vu
Surrounding all of these movements has been the metaphorical connection of disease with not only illness, but also impurity more generally—concepts that have obvious and horrifying linkages to racist political movements.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
Declining Med School Standards in a Time of Pandemic
The language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements at even the most elite schools.
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read