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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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Spartan Bioscience receives Health Canada approval of new SARS-Cov2 testing devices. We discuss the implications for public health policy.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 13, 2020 Source:Health Canada approves new rapid COVID-testing kits I discuss these kits with Dr. Paul Lem, CEO of Spartan Bioscience. Interview can be found here about halfway through the show.
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Sunday House Call, #734, April 12, 2020: The Other Curve to Flatten. The Deluge Will Come. Also, please don’t inhale nebulized hydrogen peroxide to treat your viral respiratory infection.
Sunday House Call, #734, April 12, 2020: The Other Curve to Flatten. The Deluge Will Come. The Other Unblunted Curve (published on bourque.com)Other medical illnesses cast aside by the pandemic are set to become the next deluge on our health care system. By Dr. Barry Dworkin Now, Canadian family medicine centers’ infection control measures and…
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No evidence that “immune-boosting” concoctions, supplements, or procedures augment protection from SARS-CoV2. Our immune system can be trained (vaccines and exposure) but not boosted. Keep the quacks at bay and save your money.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 10, 2020 Reference: Boost Your Immune System?The immune system is not a muscle, not a rocket, not a pump, not a balloon, nor anything else that can be inflated, expanded, or launched into the stratosphere simply by adding more power. How to boost your immune system
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The eight seniors who died in a residential home from COVID-19 did not die because they would have anyway. To use this reasoning is a kudo to cognitive dissonance.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 9, 2020 Source:10 COVID-19 deaths connected to Almonte care home
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How do we get to the beginning of the end?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 8, 2020 Source:Intermittent physical distancing might be a thing until 2022, research suggests Reference:This was a preprint study. Not peer reviewed or accepted for publication as of today. On-again, off-again looks to be best social-distancing option
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Admit what you do not know and embrace uncertainty. The public will understand that more than parroting your public health talking points. Paradoxically, your credibility increases. Masks are the latest example.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 7, 2020 “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”— John Adams Just five month’s ago, the public health message to reduce the spread of the flu virus recommended you sneeze…
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