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After 10 months of daily pandemic segments, @billcarrolltalk and I changed gears and talked about Israeli defibrillator drones with nary a “C” word mentioned.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 21, 2021 Source:
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Vaccine shortage has led to Ontario’s plan to delay health care provider’s second dose for some and redirect them to long-term care residents so that by Feb. 5 all will have had at least one dose.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 26, 2021 Source:Province to delay second vaccine doses, focus on long-term care residents
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Two positive steps forward for treatment and testing of coronavirus.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 25, 2021 Source:Ottawa-based Spartan Bioscience says rapid COVID-19 test approved by Health Canada Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19 Reference:Anti-inflammatory therapy for COVID-19 infection: the case for colchicine
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Sunday House Call, #774, January 21, 2021: The Public Agency Of Canada: We don’t have many doctors and epidemiologists but we hired science-illiterate Treasury Board and borders services civil servants to sift through the data and make policy.
Topics today include: Well, potions and sorcery did not help this health minister from Sri Lanka. The Globe and Mail reports on the self-inflicted fiasco that has befallen the Public Health Agency of Canada. Read it and fume that the government tried to stop the release of these documents. It seems CYA is more important…
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Ontario’s provincial case rate has started to decline for the first time since November. Ontario’s Associate Medical Officer of Health says it is still too early to determine if this represents a true trend.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 22, 2021 Source:Ontario COVID-19 rates showing improvement, too soon to say if it’s a trend: Yaffe
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Israeli real-world Pfizer vaccine study reports infection rates dropped by 33% in treatment group of 200K people >60 y.o vs 200K controls after 21 days, less than predicted by proponents of delaying 2nd dose. Stay on schedule until proven otherwise.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 21, 2021 Source:Quebec vaccine plan may be rethought after troubling Israeli data, says provincial advisor
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California investigating why less than 10 people at one specific vaccination site (but not anywhere else) developed possible allergic reactions from specific lot of Moderna vaccine. Was it the vaccine or some other source?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 20, 2021 Source:California urges stop to 300K vaccines after some fall ill
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Too many assumptions and unknowns about about post-infection immunity duration combined with circulating and more virulent strain makes it risky to not vaccinate people who have had COVID-19.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 19, 2021 Source:Canadians who have had COVID-19 should still get the vaccine, experts say
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Study reports that Apple watches require further evaluation to determine their ability to predict COVID-19 infection due to small study size, self-reported data, and a small number of infections within the group.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 18, 2021 Source:Study suggests Apple Watch can detect COVID-19 before symptoms appear Reference: Longitudinal Physiological Data from a Wearable Device Identifies SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Symptoms and Predicts COVID-19 Diagnosis
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