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Eric Feigl-Ding, the Epidemiologist Who Moves Fast and Breaks Things

9 Sep 2022

The tweet that catapulted him to stardom began with the all-caps exclamation, “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.” This is not language we expect from scientists on Twitter, and certainly not something we would...

How to Social Distance in a University Residence Hall

3 Jun 2022

Living for two semesters in McGill’s Upper Residence dorms, I dodged COVID-19 against all odds....

Steve Kirsch and the Seduction of Simplicity

20 May 2022

A central lesson we scientists learn in university is that science is complicated. Experiments that should yield either result A or B show us C, instead. Individual studies are flawed, and our...

'Natural immunity' to COVID has its limits

25 Feb 2022

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette

The Debilitating Puzzle Box of Long COVID

4 Feb 2022

Imagine sitting in front of 40,000 tiny pieces that you have to assemble into a jigsaw puzzle. Except that some of these pieces may belong to a different puzzle. There is no box to tell you what...

Next, preventing the emergence of new variants

28 Jan 2022

This article was originally published in the Montreal Gazette

With COVID-19, Air Is Both the Problem and the Solution

15 Jan 2022

On March 28, 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted out, “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.”...

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