A year ago, I set out to write a simple story about some new tools to fight mosquitoes. I was operating under the happy illusion that this was a fight humans were winning. Wrong.
6 countries + 32 flights later: a series that ranges (I hope) from the nerdy to the terrifying. It starts here (with the work of @eochomo, @Fredros_Inc) this and the rest of the pieces are unlocked links, open to nonsubscribers
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nytimes.com/2023/09/29/hea…

It's hard not to see this as South Africa being punished for the fact that it has world-class scientists, doing some of the best Covid surveillance in the world, and is transparent about what they find.

https://twitter.com/snolen/status/1464225397994840067

Current rumours in European media are that everyone on my plane, regardless of vax status or test results, will have to do 2-week quarantine. So you can imagine the mood on this plane.

Hey friends – a series I've been working on for the past year launched this week, if you have some time to spend with it, would be swell ... /1
thestar.com/whatcovidrevea… As the @atkinsoncf Fellow in Public Policy, I've been tracking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people in Canada who were vulnerable, or made vulnerable, to the virus – and what we decide to do with what the pandemic showed us ... /2

Hey, Twitter friends, I have a story about a story I'd like to tell you.
(This is the story:)
1/ thecoast.ca/halifax/what-h… 53 people died of Covid-19 at a Halifax longterm care facility called Northwood, over the course of 44 frantic days last spring.
(They included Gerald Jackson, Gena Hemsworth and Mamie Francis).
2/

So, Twitter pals, I need a bit of that most precious of commodities: your time and attention.
I've been working on a story for a very long time, alongside a really gifted team, and it's finally out in the world, and we all hope you'll set aside 20 minutes and read it.
1/ We set out to report on Disappearances, a human rights violation that happens in many parts of the world, that plagues Latin America, and that, right now, is gnawing at the heart of Mexico. We wanted to show what it's like to live it, and ...2/

So this morning I was in line for security at #YHZ - early morning airport security, none of us are too bright and shiny.
And the woman in front of me puts what is clearly a thermal bag of crustaceans into the plastic scanner bin thingy ... and the CATSA agent says to her, deadpan, "Ma'am, are those lobsters?"
Traveler: yes.
Agent: How many?
Traveler: 3
Agent [still deadpan]: I'm very sorry ma'am - regulations are that you can only travel with crustaceans in even numbers.
Traveler: uh - what?