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Pandemic contributing to Toronto’s SickKids’ inability to provide timely health services including surgeries and MRIs. However, this has been a “longstanding problem” prior to the outbreak.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 18, 2020 Source:Two-thirds of patients at Toronto’s SickKids have missed target window for surgeries
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Pushing the lockdown reset button with #COVIDZero will be problematic if no strategy/multilevel government support, enforcement and public buy-in is in place to follow it up.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 17, 2020 Source:Health experts push for ‘aggressive’ strategy called #COVIDZero to stamp out coronavirus Link to interesting comments from Dr. Isaac Bogoch
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Study shows ten percent of people, mostly men, with severe COVID-19, develop an autoimmune response that attacks interferons (part of the immune system) thereby reducing the host’s ability to defend against the virus.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 16, 2020 Source:‘Breakthrough Finding’ Reveals Why Certain COVID Patients Die Reference:Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19
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Sunday House Call, #765, November 15, 2020: But they said it in a press release. It must be true!
Sunday House Call, #765, November 15, 2020 Topics today include: The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine press release. How the media and governments ran with it when basic information was not provided. Why you cannot rush this process. References: Pfizer Releases Exciting Vaccine Effectiveness Datum. (Datum Is The Singular Of Data) Pfizer vaccine sparks hope and questions…
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Little being done to mitigate the unsurprising exponential increase of Covid-19 cases in Ontario. Why not employ successful measures that other countries are using to protect their citizens and remain economically functional?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 13, 2020 Source:Ontario could hit 6,500 new COVID-19 cases daily by mid-December without further action, modelling shows References:How Some Asian Countries Beat Back COVID-19Covid test and trace: how does UK compare with other countries?
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Observational study suggests that one-fifth of Covid-19 patients get a psychiatric diagnosis within 90 days. Many factors confound the results. Need more evidence and biological mechanism to determine if there is a causal link.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 11, 2020 Source:One-fifth of COVID-19 patients get a psychiatric diagnosis within 90 days, study suggests Reference:Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder: retrospective cohort studies of 62 354 COVID-19 cases in the USA
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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine news is a press release not a study. No raw data to review, limited transparency, basic questions unanswered, 94 cases, and an overreaction focusing on the claim of 90% efficacy. Validated evidence required to justify the hype.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 10, 2020 Source:Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is looking 90 per cent effective Transparency by drug companies, scrutiny by journalists, vital in vaccine news FDA gives emergency OK to Lilly’s antibody treatment for Covid-19
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Observational study concludes that month-long delays for treatment of specific cancers increases risk of mortality. Especially relevant when Covid is affecting provision of health services.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 9, 2020 Source:A month delay to cancer care might raise death risk: study Reference:Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis
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Sunday House Call, #764, November 8, 2020: Certitude is the obverse of knowledge
Sunday House Call, #764, November 11, 2020: Certitude is the obverse of knowledge Topics today include:The “armchair quarterback” phenomenon practiced by the general public and health professionals with respect to their proclamations and conclusions about the pandemic contributes to the mixed messages and confusion within public health assessments and policy. There is a reason why…
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