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    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.

    Temptation in a bowl, literally

    Yes, that is a snake in your soup

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

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    ‘Virus hunter’ Bonnie Henry on H1N1

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

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    Outbreaks and pandemics: a timeline

    See how swine flu compares