June 5, 2020 Epidemiology Parsing pandemic policy professional planning protocols per public peril perception or “What the hell is the plan?”
May 25, 2020 Epidemiology SARS CoV-2 testing to be provided to all Ottawa residents with no prerequisites. Need to be aware of false positive/negatives when screening large asymptomatic population.
May 22, 2020 Clinical Research Is this hypothesis the ACE in the hole that explains why children account for so few cases of SARS-CoV-2? Verification and further evaluation required.
May 14, 2020 Generic Drugs Will there be an increase in superbugs after SARS-CoV-2? Further evaluation is required to determine if there has been an increase in indiscriminate antibiotic use during the pandemic. We probably will not know the answer for some time.
May 12, 2020 Epidemiology Unfortunately, we do not have the tests and contact tracing availability to fulfill the WHO “extreme vigilance” guidelines to safely return to work and reopen schools in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.
May 7, 2020 Epidemiology A million tests done in Canada over the past few months falls far short of what is required moving forward. It will have to be multiples of this within shorter time intervals if we want to resume “normal” life.
May 6, 2020 Epidemiology Los Alamos Lab uses computational analysis of 6000 coronavirus sequences to conclude that a mutated strain is now dominant. Clinical implications remain unknown and study needs to be peer -reviewed and published.
May 5, 2020 Health Policy Strategy to relax the pandemic restrictions must be instituted nationwide and include accurate and copious testing and contact tracing in order to mitigate the second wave.
May 4, 2020 Apps and diagnosis Health Canada pauses approval for Spartan Bioscience SARS-CoV-2 test because of nasal swab issue and not the device itself. And more study needed before concluding children are not super spreaders of SARS-CoV-2.
April 27, 2020 Epidemiology Public Health officials are wary of a “herd-immunity” strategy as a means of reopening our economy.
