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No hype, no promises but Oxford coronavirus vaccine research is moving ahead with larger scale human trials
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 28, 2020 Source:In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead
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Public Health officials are wary of a “herd-immunity” strategy as a means of reopening our economy.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 27, 2020 Source:Canada’s top doctor warns against relying on herd immunity to reopen economy
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Sunday House Call, #736, April 26, 2020: Guarding against fake health news from the White House to websites.
Sunday House Call, #736, April 26, 2020: Guarding against fake health news from the White House to websites. Topics today include: NewsGuard, an essential extension to protect you against fake news both health and political. The dangers of using incomplete and flawed health studies as the basis for treating patients during the pandemic. Chloroquine and…
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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