January 5, 2021 Epidemiology South African coronavirus variant being studied to determine if it is more vaccine resistant.
December 29, 2020 Clinical Research What are some of the concerns about the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 with respect to transmission, number of fatalities, and its impact on children?
December 18, 2020 Epidemiology The addition of rapid testing has the potential to inform people when they are most contagious and can help reduce the need to repeatedly use lockdowns as your blunt instrument of choice.
December 17, 2020 Epidemiology “Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away” – Philip K. Dick. The Grand Bargain to quarantine before holiday gatherings is a false pretense: Not enough time, false negative testing risk, and a dash of motivated reasoning.
November 27, 2020 Epidemiology There comes a point when dire modelling scenarios will fail to have the desired impact on a bludgeoned portion of the population that are doing their part. 8 months in, those who haven’t will carry on snubbing the recommendations. Next message strategy?
November 23, 2020 Biomedical Engineering Harvard modelling study concludes that rapid-turnaround testing can significantly reduce the spread of coronavirus.
November 20, 2020 Epidemiology How can a limited vaccine supply effectively be employed to maximally reduce the rate of spread and protect the vulnerable? Network scientists have a counterintuitive proposal.
November 17, 2020 Epidemiology 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.
November 13, 2020 Epidemiology 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?
November 11, 2020 Epidemiology 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.