October 22, 2020 Epidemiology COVID-19 outbreaks noted in some Ottawa sports teams. Contact tracing needed to determine if the activity itself is a contributing factor. Plus, the CDC guideline change; should one data point alter policy recommendations?
October 21, 2020 Clinical Research Researchers are doing their job when clinical trials are put on hold. Data and safety monitoring are part of the process. There are no shortcuts even for the Covid-19 vaccines in development.
October 20, 2020 Clinical Research Purposefully infecting vaccine-study volunteers with coronavirus to speed up the development and approval process is unethical and fraught with the law of unintended consequences.
October 19, 2020 Epidemiology Sweden’s government decides to (partially) reverse course on their public health approach to the pandemic.
October 18, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #761, October 18, 2020: Sweden’s wishful thinking reality smackdown.
October 16, 2020 Epidemiology The Swedish COVID-19 response: The Devil is in the details. A devastating review of how this is not the model for the rest of the world.
October 15, 2020 Epidemiology The story is not who signed the Barrington Declaration but that its ideas are unsupported by scientific evidence. Deliberately and purposefully employing SARS-CoV-2 as your vector to achieve herd immunity presents many dangers and unintended consequences.
October 14, 2020 Allergy/Immunology It is too soon to draw any conclusions about short/long term immunity based on COVID-19 antibody levels. Many unknown factors remain. Time should help with the answers in future studies.
October 13, 2020 Health Headlines Lack of contact tracing data limits ability to set appropriate targeted public health policy.
October 11, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #760, October 11, 2020: The anti-cervical-cancer vaccine works
