November 5, 2020 Clinical Research Another (small) study confirms that face masks do not reduce oxygen saturation during vigorous exercise for healthy individuals. You can get yourself an inexpensive pulse oximeter and prove it to yourself.
October 27, 2020 Health Policy How will Canada clear the health care backlog caused by the pandemic? CMA releases report outlining some of the issues but does not include primary care and disease prevention.
October 26, 2020 Epidemiology Testing and contact tracing programs can be bolstered by home testing according to PNAS report. Researchers are trying to develop easy-to-use home tests.
October 23, 2020 Epidemiology Superspeader events are an illustration of how unforgiving COVID-19 transmission is of human behaviour/decisions when one person can cause many others to get sick.
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 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 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 13, 2020 Health Headlines Lack of contact tracing data limits ability to set appropriate targeted public health policy.
