July 30, 2020 Health Policy The Schoolhouse of Cards; returning to school has lots of moving parts, many assumptions, unknowns, professional disagreements and incomplete data. Let’s hope the price of learning the outcome does not come at too great a cost.
July 29, 2020 General information Virtual visits will continue for at least another year at your family doctor’s office. Like any tool they have a specific use but are not THE “Future” of medical care but an adjunct to practice.
July 20, 2020 Health Policy The Ottawa Spike. Easy to blame younger people but the conflicting and contradictory public health rules and government decisions for Phase 3 are likely a significant contributing factor.
July 10, 2020 Epidemiology Silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2 seem to contribute to a substantial number of U.S. cases. Ever the more reason to implement consistent face mask and physical distancing policies.
July 8, 2020 Epidemiology More discussion with @billcarrolltalk about the Covid aerosol issue as explained, as always, in fine evidenced-based fashion by @gorkson in his recent Science Based Medicine article.
July 7, 2020 Health Policy How much should we be concerned about coronvirus-spreading-microdroplets? @gorkson has an excellent post that reviews the evidence to date.
July 6, 2020 Epidemiology In retrospect, mandatory face mask policy may be late to the party. We can’t change the past but lets use what we have learned for the betterment of all moving forward.
June 30, 2020 Epidemiology New ‘pandemic potential’ flu strain found in pigs. Also, Face Mask Follies: A Revisit to Dunning-Krugerville
