May 12, 2021 Epidemiology Risk calculus and interpretation changing in Ontario. Public Health recommends suspending first dose of AZ vaccine pending further data analysis. Outcome even if in favour of resumption will not change the erosion of public confidence.
May 4, 2021 Health Policy Agree with @YoniFreedhoff & @dgardner on the latest NACI statement about the risk of AZ vaccine: “So many facepalms” & “If I were writing a chapter on risk communication, I would use what NACI has done to illustrate every possible mistake”, respectively.
May 2, 2021 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #788, May 2, 2021: “No Coke. Pepsi.” @brittlestar hits it out of the park.
April 27, 2021 General information Confidence in AZ vaccine growing in Canada according to poll. Many possible reasons including fear of disease, trusted advice, individual stories and experiences, and seeing friends and family being vaccinated without incident among other factors.
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 4, 2021 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #784, April 4, 2021: The world as we see it.