September 18, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Overlap between allergy and cold/ COVID -19 symptoms can lead to inaccurate assumptions and unfortunate consequences. @billcarrolltalk and I talk about this issue in the context of Pembroke school staff with COVID-19 who thought they had allergies.
September 17, 2020 General information When should you get tested for COVID-19 infection? Ottawa Public Health has guidelines to help.
September 16, 2020 Epidemiology CDC study associates restaurant dining with increased risk of COVID-19 positivity. It used self-reporting among four other limitations e.g. it did not ask if people were indoors or outside when they ate. No correlation can be drawn.
September 14, 2020 General information Excessive fatigue, respiratory and cardiovascular problems remaining months after COVID-19 infection reported in younger people.
September 8, 2020 Epidemiology Why proposing “herd immunity” as a strategy by using SARS-CoV-2 as your inoculating vector is not a good idea. Historically, there has never been a real case of herd immunity through infection.
September 4, 2020 Health Policy We will find out over the next few months, as more data is collected and studied, what combination of approaches to reducing school Covid-19 outbreak risk achieves its goals.
September 3, 2020 Epidemiology Excellent application of science as supercomputer genetic analysis generates plausible hypothesis that unifies the disparate Covid-19 symptoms into a coherent whole. Clinical studies required to prove the claim.
August 17, 2020 Epidemiology The constant in the modelling equation is the virus. Our responses are the variables that determine its greater or lesser impact on us.
August 16, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #752, August 16, 2020: Your School #Covid-19 Risk Checklist Comparator.
August 13, 2020 Dermatology Hair loss after Covid-19 not specific to the disease but rather the severity of (any) infectious process and the body’s resource allocation response.