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No Flu Season Will Affect Next Year’s Vaccine Prep
Experts predicted that the 2019/20 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere would be a bad one. And then it wasn’t.…
New Ways to Cope with Zoom Fatigue. And More Headlines Straight from Science Journals
Fighting Zoom fatigue, real world vaccine results, and overcoming Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in this week’s roundup of pandemic science for The…
Poor phase 4 safety results for tofacitinib raise questions about JAK inhibitors
Preliminary data from a phase 4 post-marketing safety trial of the arthritis drug tofacitinib have turned up worrying results for…
It’s OK to Stretch Out a Second Vaccine Dose. And More New COVID Science
Longer gaps between vaccine doses are OK, Neanderthal genes are protective, and 20 million years of life has been lost…
Even Animals Know How to Social Distance. And More New Virus Science
The virus knows what we did last summer, animals know how to social distance, and how the humidity of masks…
The ‘Tom Hanks’ Pandemic Effect. And More Science Journal News
Turning discarded masks into roads, misinformation reduces vaccination intent, and Tom Hanks’ diagnosis changed people’s behaviour in this week’s roundup…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- BMJ (3)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- Chemistry World (11)
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- Great Lakes Now (13)
- Hakai (52)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
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- Medscape (16)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (94)
- Nature Biotechnology (5)
- Nature Index (5)
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- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (1)
- New Scientist (49)
- Research Canada (2)
- Research Fortnight (6)
- SciDev.Net (5)
- Science (15)
- Science Borealis (2)
- Science.ca (1)
- Scientific American (1)
- The Lancet (19)
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (1)
- The Lancet Rheumatology (4)
- The Narwhal (2)
- The Pharmaceutical Journal (6)
- The Tyee (83)
- University Affairs (26)
- Water Canada (1)
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