One thing I have noticed is how I have not had a cold and have actually had fewer allergies since I've started routinely using masks. ...

World cases and deaths have once again plateaued. Why? Because Europe has also plateaued. That said, other than the US, which is now...

Hey, we are now well into December. Instead of the traditional time for holiday parties with family and friends, this has become the...

Looking at the Government of Canada's variant web page, one can see that Omicron was added as a variant of concern on November 28th. ...

When I was updating the Blog's COVID timeline ( Thought of the Day - December 1 2021 - SARS-CoV-2 Timeline ) I stumbled across a table in...

There is good news here in BC. As well as the progress in cleaning up after the heavy rains, for example, the Barrowtown area water...

For some time there has been an ongoing drive to get as many people vaccinated in Canada as possible. Unfortunately, our authorities...

I guess these graphs kind of say it all. Right now the pandemic is still all about Europe. While the rest of the world meanders along,...

It has been a couple of months since we talked about Long-COVID ( Thought of the Day - October 4 2021 - Years Into Long-COVID ). As you...

I saw an article in Nature magazine sometime back, concerning sweeping SARS-CoV-2 from the air using portable air filters. Citing a study...

Well, here we are, the first day of the last month of the year. I have just updated the timeline on the site with notable events from...

Back a few months ago I talked about a syndrome known as Learned Helplessness ( Thought of the Day - October 5 2021 - Learned...

I have held off talking about the B.1.1.529 variant for a few days as, to be honest, there is not a lot of concrete information released...

It has been a while since we looked at Oceana. This forgotten continent has been doing very well COVID-death-wise. The last time we...

Wow. After spending eighteen months in denial, guess what? This month Canada finally updated its mask recommendations. "In general,...

Now that it is assured that COVID is not a transient disease, there are a number of interesting areas of research that will hopefully...

It has been two months since we talked about the Olympics. Since then the flame arrived from Greece, to continue to excite Olympic Fever...

Last Friday Canada approved Pfizer vaccines for kids 5 through 11. While I am not surprised I must admit I am a bit shocked. As far as I...

With the US border fully open, Canada will be scrapping the PCR testing requirements for trips less than 72 hours ( Thought of the Day -...

Now the massive case increases seen in Europe over the last month (that is exceeding last year's peak) are manifesting into deaths. ...