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President Trump’s free flow of medical advice and musings has truly traversed into the Bizarro World making all evidenced-based health practitioners’ jobs all the more difficult. Do not inject or inhale disinfectant into your body or irradiate yourself with UV light.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 24, 2020 Source:Trump, ever the salesman, is peddling dangerous cures for coronavirus Please Don’t Drink Disinfectant, Lysol And Dettol Maker Said After Trump Suggested People Could Inject It To Kill The Coronavirus
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How do we accomplish getting from here to there?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 23, 2020 Source: How to build and deploy testing systems at unprecedented scale
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This coming winter may see a confluence of the flu and Sars-CoV-2 infections. Can the health care system cope if this scenario arrives?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 22, 2020 Source:CDC Director Robert Redfield warns second wave of covid-19 will coincide with flu, threatening health-care capacity
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Just let us use the fee codes that work! Bureaucratic Catch-22 reasons should not be in play during these extraordinary times. #DoTheRightThing
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 20, 2020 Source:Ontario government makes changes to pay doctors, keep clinics operating Blog: “We are paying our physicians. But there’s a catch” The Government of Ontario has expressed gratitude for the services of all health care professionals. It is indeed disheartening and discouraging that the words do not match its…
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Sunday House Call, #735, April 19, 2020: A common sense Ontario physician’s services fee code solution is twisted by the Ontario Government into a new chapter of Catch-22. “We are paying our physicians. But there’s a catch. You can’t use the fee codes.” #DoTheRightThing
Sunday House Call, #735, April 19, 2020: A common sense Ontario physician’s services fee code solution is twisted by the Ontario Government into a new chapter of Catch-22. “We are paying our physicians. But there’s a catch.. “You can’t use the fee codes.” The Government of Ontario has expressed gratitude for the services of all…
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The road back will depend on the expertise of physicians like Dr. Fauci and not the Dunning-Krugerites Dr. Oz and his friends at Fox News among others. There is a moral(e) imperative to provide the public with a plan to resume some semblance of our lives.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 17, 2020 Source:Will it really take ‘weeks’ to ease physical distancing? Maybe not Dr. Oz Suggests Schools Should Reopen Because ‘Only’ 2% To 3% More People Could Die The Unholy Alliance of Trump and Dr. Oz
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Ottawa Public Health official advises people standing in their driveway talking to neighbours 30 ft away not do to so because a “party” may break out. Good for Dr. Etches who stepped in to correct this credibility-damaging overstep.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 16, 2020 Source:Driveway and over-the-fence chats? No problem, says Etches
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PM Trudeau, your flouting of pandemic health policy rules demoralizes the country. Armchair “physicians”, stop flaunting cherry-picked preprint studies as “the” evidence HCQ works when there are just as many that refute it. That is why proper investigation and meta-analysis are required.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2020 Source: Government’s COVID-19 rules don’t seem to apply to Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau“Miracle cure” testimonials aside, azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine probably do not work against COVID-19
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What are some of the ways that asymptomatic people infected with SARS-CoV-2 can spread the virus if they are not coughing or sneezing? This is of particular importance for children.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 14, 2020 Source: Coronavirus: How asymptomatic carriers spread a disease like COVID-19
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