Risks from biocontainment labs: A puzzling lack of realism about human fallibility prevails

 ABOVE: A scientist in sterile coveralls cleans a Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC) in a cleanroom facility. (PHOTO: iSTOCK) We will never know whether SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, began to spread in Wuhan in late 2019 because of a lab leak. Was there some small handling mistake with a sample in

A most consequential virus

 Title: Apollo's Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact Of Coronavirus On The Way We Live Published: October 27, 2020 Publisher: Little, Brown And Company ISBN:  13:9780316628211 In Apollo’s Arrow, Nicholas A. Christakis tells an essential, if incomplete, story about Covid-19 and the pandemic through which we are still living. 1. A Novel

The short game and the long game of COVID-19

 By Simon Sutcliffe The COVID-19 pandemic has captured the attention of Canadians with an urgency and a level of grudging acceptance unlike any other medical or natural disaster in our lifetime. We have complied with imposed restrictions and privations that would have been thought impossible and unacceptable under normal circumstances

8 myths and rumors about the COVID-19 epidemic and China

 Editor’s note: As countries the world over grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much misinformation surrounding public discourse about the origin and transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Conspiracy theories have been widely circulating on social media and in some established media to support a discredited conspiracy theory that an