April 19, 2021 Health Policy AZ vaccine to be made available for everyone over 40 years of age. Fear understandable with media reporting on extremely rare blood clots but not mentioning lives saved from vaccine. Risk of harm from Covid infection causing clots is far greater.
April 16, 2021 Health Headlines Pfizer CEO states that a booster of present vaccine “likely” needed with six to 12 months after second dose. And just as we have yearly flu vaccine boosters, we may have similar protocols for Covid vaccine to deal with the variants.
April 15, 2021 Epidemiology Ottawa’s Associate Medical Office of Health reports that the COVID situation in the city is dire. Health care system at “significant risk” of breaking down as hospital admissions are doubling every 12 days.
April 13, 2021 Epidemiology Alberta may be overselling its best-before date for easing of Covid restrictions. Does the math/evidence support the prediction that “back to normal” will return mid-September?
April 9, 2021 Allergy/Immunology Will Covid vaccine mixing be adopted as health policy? They use different delivery systems carrying the genetic instruction set to produce the same spike protein, ergo ongoing studies are evaluating clinical outcomes to determine if assumption is true.
April 8, 2021 Health Policy NACI stands by its four month dosing interval but does not provide further evidence that this will work well for all age groups and for those with complicating medical conditions. Hope the gamble works (truly, no sarcasm).
April 6, 2021 Epidemiology Ottawa’s Medical Officer of Health co-signs letter urging Ontario Government to issue-stay-at-home order because of rising Covid-19 infection rates and ICU admissions.
April 5, 2021 Clinical Research CDC study shows vaccines cut Covid infections and transmission. They will help get us out of the pandemic.
April 1, 2021 Epidemiology Another “lockdown” coming to Ontario that will lead to the same outcome as before. Can we expect better long-term results for the rest of the province when it has not changed much in already-locked-down zones?
March 31, 2021 Clinical Research CDC releases study showing that mRNA vaccines perform almost the same in the real world as they did in the lab. Further indications are they prevent disease and its transmission.
