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 5, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #733, April 4, 2020: Transparency Through the COVID-19 Looking Glass: A interview with @DanGardner. New COVID-19 testing device from Spartan Bioscience @spartanbio
April 3, 2020 Epidemiology Ontario Government to release SARS-CoV-2 models correctly recognizing that the public can handle the truth.
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.
April 1, 2020 Epidemiology The utility of surgical masks and broader testing required to have a plan about what to do next
March 31, 2020 Epidemiology Recent Sars-Cov-2 data analysis shows the efforts of Canadians is starting to have a positive effect. Don’t let up.
March 30, 2020 Epidemiology Prepare for what is coming over the next two weeks. It is expected and not a reflection that staying at home is not working. This is the past two weeks now percolating through to the present.
March 29, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #732, March 29, 2020: Opaque Transparency in the Time of the Pandemic
March 26, 2020 Epidemiology Using the benchmark of confirmed COVID-19 cases inaccurately represents the scope of the pandemic. For some, human nature takes over and minimizes the risk with entirely predictable outcomes.
March 25, 2020 Epidemiology Epidemiological models show Ottawa may see 4000 cases a day but that can be reduced by the continued efforts of all who are staying at home. We will know about the fruits of our efforts in 2-4 weeks from now.