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We Are All Mutants and So Is the Coronavirus

16 Apr 2020

The word 鈥渕utant鈥 suggests aberrations. Whether we think of Jeff Goldblum鈥檚 stomach-churning physical deterioration in The Fly or even the unwarranted demonization of the X-Men by non-mutants, that...

Testing for COVID-19

16 Apr 2020

Until there is an effective treatment or vaccine, the best strategy to win the war against COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is to stop its spread through the population. This requires extensive tracking of...

Essential Knowledge About Essential Oils and COVID-19

14 Apr 2020

If only it were that simple. If all one would have to do to prevent the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting the respiratory tract is to inhale some vapour from eucalyptus essential oil, our worries...

Cloth Masks Given the OK, But Do They Work?

10 Apr 2020

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

How Long Can a Virus 鈥淟ive鈥 Outside the Body?

8 Apr 2020

One of the frequently asked questions about the SARS-CoV-2 virus is how long the virus can live outside the body. 鈥淟ive鈥 is not exactly the appropriate term, as聽viruses are not really "alive"...

No Need to Shave the World: Why Your Beard Is Not a Problem in the Age of COVID

3 Apr 2020

In 1843 a letter to the editor entitled 鈥淭he growth of the beard medically considered鈥 published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal argued that beards were medicinally beneficial, and that ...

Today's Reality Requires Superheroes

27 Mar 2020

For the past few weeks, I feel as if we have been living in a comic book. A dark cloud of impending doom slowly encroaching upon our North American cities, as we look out into the world watching...

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