Julia M. Wright

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A healthcare worker wears an N95 respirator mask and other personal protective equipment. (Dick Zoutman)

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

Dick Zoutman, Queen's University, Ontario; Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University; Mark Ungrin, University of Calgary, and Ryan Tennant, University of Waterloo

New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
It is in everyone’s interest that our postsecondary institutions start working now to limit the harms of post-COVID condition on students. (Shutterstock)

We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post‑COVID condition

Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University; Dick Zoutman, Queen's University, Ontario; Mark Ungrin, University of Calgary, and Ryan Tennant, University of Waterloo

Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections, putting them at risk for post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Campuses can take action to protect them.
A military guard of honour wear face masks against the spread of the coronavirus by the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poetry has linked war and disease for centuries

Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University

From cholera outbreaks to public health actions, war metaphors have long been used to describe diseases, to show what we fear and to explain our world to ourselves.

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