November 24, 2020 Generic Drugs Phenelzine drug shortage in Canada may last until April 2021 and is leaving patients in a precarious and desperate position.
November 23, 2020 Biomedical Engineering Harvard modelling study concludes that rapid-turnaround testing can significantly reduce the spread of coronavirus.
November 22, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #766, November 22, 2020: Trust, verify, and disclose the expected and known side effects for the new coronavirus vaccines before the mass vaccination programs begin.
November 20, 2020 Epidemiology How can a limited vaccine supply effectively be employed to maximally reduce the rate of spread and protect the vulnerable? Network scientists have a counterintuitive proposal.
November 19, 2020 Health Policy Can Health Canada explain why there has been a dearth of approval for rapid Covid-19 testing when the EU Commission has recommended them for widespread use? (no sarcasm intended)
November 18, 2020 Health Policy Pandemic contributing to Toronto’s SickKids’ inability to provide timely health services including surgeries and MRIs. However, this has been a “longstanding problem” prior to the outbreak.
November 17, 2020 Epidemiology Pushing the lockdown reset button with #COVIDZero will be problematic if no strategy/multilevel government support, enforcement and public buy-in is in place to follow it up.
November 16, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Study shows ten percent of people, mostly men, with severe COVID-19, develop an autoimmune response that attacks interferons (part of the immune system) thereby reducing the host’s ability to defend against the virus.
November 15, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #765, November 15, 2020: But they said it in a press release. It must be true!
November 13, 2020 Epidemiology Little being done to mitigate the unsurprising exponential increase of Covid-19 cases in Ontario. Why not employ successful measures that other countries are using to protect their citizens and remain economically functional?
