April 22, 2020 Emergency Medicine This coming winter may see a confluence of the flu and Sars-CoV-2 infections. Can the health care system cope if this scenario arrives?
April 20, 2020 Health Policy Just let us use the fee codes that work! Bureaucratic Catch-22 reasons should not be in play during these extraordinary times. #DoTheRightThing
April 17, 2020 Epidemiology The road back will depend on the expertise of physicians like Dr. Fauci and not the Dunning-Krugerites Dr. Oz and his friends at Fox News among others. There is a moral(e) imperative to provide the public with a plan to resume some semblance of our lives.
April 16, 2020 Health Policy Ottawa Public Health official advises people standing in their driveway talking to neighbours 30 ft away not do to so because a “party” may break out. Good for Dr. Etches who stepped in to correct this credibility-damaging overstep.
April 15, 2020 Clinical Research PM Trudeau, your flouting of pandemic health policy rules demoralizes the country. Armchair “physicians”, stop flaunting cherry-picked preprint studies as “the” evidence HCQ works when there are just as many that refute it. That is why proper investigation and meta-analysis are required.
April 13, 2020 Epidemiology Spartan Bioscience receives Health Canada approval of new SARS-Cov2 testing devices. We discuss the implications for public health policy.
April 9, 2020 Emergency Medicine The eight seniors who died in a residential home from COVID-19 did not die because they would have anyway. To use this reasoning is a kudo to cognitive dissonance.
April 6, 2020 Health Policy Thinking of disinfecting used masks? How? Will the material breakdown or the embedded disinfectant irritate the face? Will it work? Implication: no new ones for some time.
April 2, 2020 Epidemiology Canadian Governments’ refusal to release COVID-19 model projections is paternalistic and disrespectful and says to Canadians, “You can’t handle the truth”. We know how that movie ended.
