December 4, 2020 Clinical Research Coronavirus vaccine for children will not receive approval for use until clinical trials determine safety, efficacy, and the appropriate dosing. Information should start to become available in the first half of 2021 as trials get underway.
December 3, 2020 Health Policy As more is learned about Sars-CoV-2 incubation periods, quarantine health policy recommendations can change.
December 2, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Antibody testing for COVID-19 may satisfy your curiosity and provide a false sense of protection but will not change the outcome of what we need to continue to do. Not enough is known about immunity duration or transmission potential after infection.
November 30, 2020 Health Policy What should the public health policy strategy be if someone refuses to be vaccinated against Sars-CoV-2?
November 27, 2020 Epidemiology There comes a point when dire modelling scenarios will fail to have the desired impact on a bludgeoned portion of the population that are doing their part. 8 months in, those who haven’t will carry on snubbing the recommendations. Next message strategy?
November 26, 2020 Health Policy There are solutions, should it occur, to reduce the incidence of non-adherence to the two dose schedule required for the coronavirus vaccines. What is Canada’s plan?
November 25, 2020 Health Policy Canada will have to wait in line for coronavirus vaccine while other countries receive it first. What policies were in place that allowed them to have the manufacturing infrastructure to supply their citizens with earlier access?
November 24, 2020 Generic Drugs Phenelzine drug shortage in Canada may last until April 2021 and is leaving patients in a precarious and desperate position.
November 23, 2020 Biomedical Engineering Harvard modelling study concludes that rapid-turnaround testing can significantly reduce the spread of coronavirus.
