SARS

Ontario Premier Doug Ford visits Canadian Hospital Specialities (CHS) helping them take dual COVID-19 testing swab kits and separating them into two units to help with swab capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oakville, Ont. on Jun. 8, 2020. (Nathan Denette/CP)

Has Ontario learned anything from SARS?

Timothy Sly: The regions that experienced SARS in 2003—Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Ontario—mostly demonstrated a stronger and more effective response to COVID-19. The one exception was Ontario, which still seems to be confused and indecisive.

Author Saleema Nawaz, cover of her book Songs for the End of the World

A new Canadian pandemic novel is astonishingly prescient

Saleema Nawaz’s much-researched book, ’Songs for the End of the World’ is haunting, morally nuanced and oddly hopeful

The science of novel coronavirus

Timothy Sly: The basic reproductive number of coronavirus is 2.6. Here’s what that means.

Fair warning, fear-mongering and the real risk of STIs

Julia Belluz on health risks and their messaging

What students are talking about today (Sept. 25 edition)

Bacon shortage. Study-space shortage. The #1 poker school.

Yes, that is a snake in your soup

Cooked snake looks very snake-like, which was a problem for one queasy diner

‘Virus hunter’ Bonnie Henry on H1N1

The risk of running out of infection meds, and the perils of pedicures and dirty organic produce

Outbreaks and pandemics: a timeline

See how swine flu compares