May 5, 2021 Clinical Research U.K. planning to give third Covid booster dose alongside the flu vaccine to people over 50 in the Fall. Studies looking at new variant-adjusted vaccine versus existing one to be used in this process.
May 3, 2021 Allergy/Immunology The development of mRNA vaccine technology has the potential to expand to treat and prevent other diseases akin to the technological spinoffs seen with the Apollo space program.
April 30, 2021 Clinical Research Preprint study evaluated entire Scottish population and calls into question delaying second Covid vaccine dose up to 12 weeks. After first dose it noted a drop in preventing hospitalization from 84% at 5 weeks to 58% after the 7th. And after 16 weeks?
April 28, 2021 Clinical Research Hope? Sure, but tone down the touting of experimental Pfizer drug to treat early Covid that hasn’t completed its 60-person phase 1 trial. And Miami private school ban on Covid-19-vaccinated teachers enters the pantheon of the Bizarro World.
April 20, 2021 Epidemiology Ottawa Medical Officer of Health enacts special order that children, with some exceptions, wear masks if they are within 5 metres of slides, swings and sandboxes. Is there evidence that this will reduce transmission? (no sarcasm, truly would like to know)
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 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 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 29, 2021 Epidemiology Canada’s decision to delay second doses of Covid-19 vaccines by four months may not result in the positive outcome expected for certain groups.
