October 29, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Vulnerable populations to be the focus in a new Canadian COVID-19 antibody study.
October 26, 2020 Epidemiology Testing and contact tracing programs can be bolstered by home testing according to PNAS report. Researchers are trying to develop easy-to-use home tests.
October 23, 2020 Epidemiology Superspeader events are an illustration of how unforgiving COVID-19 transmission is of human behaviour/decisions when one person can cause many others to get sick.
October 22, 2020 Epidemiology COVID-19 outbreaks noted in some Ottawa sports teams. Contact tracing needed to determine if the activity itself is a contributing factor. Plus, the CDC guideline change; should one data point alter policy recommendations?
October 19, 2020 Epidemiology Sweden’s government decides to (partially) reverse course on their public health approach to the pandemic.
October 16, 2020 Epidemiology The Swedish COVID-19 response: The Devil is in the details. A devastating review of how this is not the model for the rest of the world.
October 15, 2020 Epidemiology The story is not who signed the Barrington Declaration but that its ideas are unsupported by scientific evidence. Deliberately and purposefully employing SARS-CoV-2 as your vector to achieve herd immunity presents many dangers and unintended consequences.
October 9, 2020 Epidemiology Superspreader events + no masks + no physical distancing + poor contact tracing = well, what do you think will happen? Same answer for every country that used this equation.
October 8, 2020 Epidemiology Dr. Tam’s citing increasing numbers of confirmed COVID cases also requires the denominator of total tests done. Use absolute instead of relative percentage changes. Be consistent with methodology or risk erosion of the public’s trust.
October 1, 2020 Epidemiology Study posits that severity of respiratory failure seen in people with COVID-19 is associated with a gene cluster inherited from Neanderthals. More evaluation required to understand the function of this cluster if shown to be causal.