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Raywat Deonandan
Last published June 2025 · On our record since 2012
Where this writer stands
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Recent work
- Deonandan: Cancelling funding for mRNA vaccine is both risky and foolishOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jun 2, 2025
- Opinion: Cancelling funding for mRNA vaccine is both risky and foolishOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Jun 1, 2025
- Deonandan: Canada should act quickly to attract U.S. scientists fleeing TrumpOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Mar 27, 2025
- Deonandan: RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and CanadaOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Nov 21, 2024
- Opinion: RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and CanadaOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Nov 19, 2024
- Opinion: RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and CanadaOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Nov 19, 2024
- Ontario's wastewater testing for disease must expand, not shrink | OpinionOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jun 17, 2024
- Deonandan: Among some online groups, being called 'racist' is now a badge of honourOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Oct 23, 2023
- Deonandan: How Joe Rogan's vaccine-debate pitch undermines real scienceOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jul 4, 2023
- Deonandan: Let's apply COVID lessons to the next pandemicOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jan 13, 2023
- Deonandan: Six steps to help save Ontario's health-care systemOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Oct 26, 2022
- Deonandan: Six things governments should be doing about COVID, nowOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jul 6, 2022
- Deonandan: A new 'Age of Pandemics' looms. Let's invest in proper preventionOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jun 9, 2022
- Deonandan: Wearing a mask is still helpful, but choose a good oneOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Mar 24, 2022
- Deonandan: Managing COVID — now it's up to individualsOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Mar 1, 2022
- Deonandan: Managing COVID is now up to individualsOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Feb 28, 2022
- Deonandan: Why should the vaccinated care that the unvaccinated are unvaccinated?Opinion · Ottawa Citizen · Feb 15, 2022
- Deonandan: We need a global 'Manhattan Project' to vaccinate the worldOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Nov 26, 2021
- Deonandan: We need a global 'Manhattan Project' to vaccinate the worldOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Nov 25, 2021
- Deonandan: Here's why aerosol transmission of COVID matters to us allOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Oct 20, 2021
- Deonandan: Vaccinating children should be encouraged … but not compelled. Not yet.Opinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jul 14, 2021
- Opinion: Let's clear up the confusion over talk of a 'preferred' vaccineOpinion · Edmonton Journal · May 4, 2021
- Deonandan: Let's clear up the confusion over talk of a 'preferred' vaccineOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · May 4, 2021
- Opinion: Let's clear up the confusion over 'preferred' vaccineOpinion · Montreal Gazette · May 4, 2021
- Deonandan: COVID-19 — How Ontario fell into the myth of the balanced responseOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Apr 27, 2021
- Opinion: No, you shouldn’t wait for a better vaccineOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Mar 14, 2021
- Deonandan: No, you shouldn’t wait for a better vaccineOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Mar 14, 2021
- Opinion: No, you shouldn’t wait for a better vaccineOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Mar 14, 2021
- Opinion: Delaying the second dose of COVID vaccine is not evidence-based medicine – but it still makes senseOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Mar 4, 2021
- Deonandan: Delaying the second dose of COVID vaccine is not evidence-based medicine – but it still makes senseOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Mar 4, 2021
- The Saturday Debate: Can the Tokyo Olympics still happen this summer?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 22, 2021
- Opinion | The Saturday Debate: Can the Tokyo Olympics still happen this summer?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 22, 2021
- Deonandan: Wearing a face mask is both socially responsible and self-interestedOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jul 13, 2020
- Deonandan: Wearing a face mask is both socially responsible and self-interestedOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jul 13, 2020
- COVID-19 is not a health crisis, it is a health systems crisisOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 6, 2020
- It’s time for scientists to leadOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 16, 2020
- Deonandan: Coronavirus shows the urgent need to invest in health infrastructureOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Mar 12, 2020
- Kony 2012 campaign makes us feel good — and that’s badOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 13, 2012
- Kony 2012 campaign makes us feel good — and that’s bad | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 12, 2012
- Kony 2012 campaign makes us feel good — and that’s badOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 12, 2012