September 23, 2020 Health Policy Fever as a school screening parameter for potential COVID-19 infections in children is problematic for many reasons. This includes inaccurate devices, choice of location (oral, ear, etc), and that a majority of children with COVID-19 will not have a fever.
September 22, 2020 Health Policy Ottawa school board to review enacting mandatory facemask policy for younger children
September 21, 2020 Epidemiology CDC updates guidance acknowledging what most everyone else accepted months ago that coronavirus spreads through airborne respiratory droplets and aerosols.
September 20, 2020 Health Headlines Sunday House Call, #757, September 20, 2020: Why respectful debunking of pseudoscience is important. A conversation with Jonathan Jarry (@CrackedScience) from the @McGillOSS
September 18, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Overlap between allergy and cold/ COVID -19 symptoms can lead to inaccurate assumptions and unfortunate consequences. @billcarrolltalk and I talk about this issue in the context of Pembroke school staff with COVID-19 who thought they had allergies.
September 17, 2020 General information When should you get tested for COVID-19 infection? Ottawa Public Health has guidelines to help.
September 16, 2020 Epidemiology CDC study associates restaurant dining with increased risk of COVID-19 positivity. It used self-reporting among four other limitations e.g. it did not ask if people were indoors or outside when they ate. No correlation can be drawn.
September 15, 2020 General information Can universal facial masking reduce Covid-19 disease severity through “variolation”? NEJM commentary proposes a hypothesis that suggests further investigation.
September 14, 2020 General information Excessive fatigue, respiratory and cardiovascular problems remaining months after COVID-19 infection reported in younger people.
September 13, 2020 Bariatric Medicine Sunday House Call, #756 , September 13, 2020: Fat shaming and weight bias have no place in obesity management. @seanwharton discuses the new obesity management guidelines.
