November 20, 2022 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #859, November 20, 2022: The lack of understanding of what family doctors need to run their practices is on full display from consultants and health-policy experts who have never run a practice let alone treated patients.
January 12, 2022 Health Policy Quebec to impose fines against those who refuse to vaccinate. @billcarrolltalk and I talk about this issue. Though it may provide an outlet for the frustrated majority, it is generating necessary debate about liberty, legality, and morality.
January 5, 2022 Health Policy UK chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation comments on how misinformation has costs lives in Africa and “at some point, society has to open up” but “winter is probably not the best time” to do so.
October 25, 2021 Epidemiology Ontario Government announces road map to lift all remaining public health restrictions by March 2022. Proof of vaccination may be scrapped before then. Hope there is herd immunity before lifting the latter.
October 12, 2021 Health Policy Quebec Order of Nurses to suspend licences for those members who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 by October 15. The College of Physicians has committed to same for its members.
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.
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 13, 2021 Epidemiology Alberta may be overselling its best-before date for easing of Covid restrictions. Does the math/evidence support the prediction that “back to normal” will return mid-September?
November 6, 2019 Diabetes Funding for proactive approaches to prevent obesity is lacking whereas costs associated for the treatment for the disease are staggering.
June 11, 2017 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #617, June 11, 2017: The long-game strategy of junk food ads targeting children