July 4, 2022 Health Policy Fourth COVID vaccine dose should be available to all adults who want it just as Quebec has done.
June 24, 2022 Clinical Research End of week wrap up: Not being able to stand on one legs means you die earlier?, Alzheimer an autoimmune disease?, and COVID vaccines saved millions of lives according to Lancet-published study.
May 25, 2022 Clinical Research Pfizer applies to FDA for approval of three-dose pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children under five years of age.
March 28, 2022 Clinical Research Israeli study reports fourth COVID vaccine dose for people 60-100 years old significantly lowers COVID death rate.
February 14, 2022 Clinical Research FDA stops the review of the incomplete data (two-dose COVID vaccine for children 0-5 years-old) it asked from Pfizer. Why did you ask for it in the first place? Says now it will wait for the complete three-dose data set. What a surprise.????
February 7, 2022 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #824, February 6, 2022: The “Death Receptor”; Type 1 Diabetes research, the real kind. #GoScience
February 1, 2022 Health Headlines If the reported two-dose Pfizer pediatric COVID vaccine data to date for two to four-year-olds did not produce a strong enough immune response, do they have more data to support their application for FDA approval?
January 20, 2022 Health Policy 35 per cent of Canadians have received their third dose. Omicron is like Asimov’s Foundation series Mule who unexpectedly changed history upsetting the world view of many. Whereas two doses were good for Delta, three are needed now.
December 21, 2021 Allergy/Immunology Small study (52 people) indicates that breakthrough COVID infections, not including omicron, in the fully vaccinated results in high levels of neutralizing antibodies.
December 2, 2021 Epidemiology Ontario to expand eligibility of COVID-19 boosters for adults 50 and older finally recognizing that this is a three-dose vaccine. #VaccinesWork