May 7, 2020 Epidemiology A million tests done in Canada over the past few months falls far short of what is required moving forward. It will have to be multiples of this within shorter time intervals if we want to resume “normal” life.
May 6, 2020 Epidemiology Los Alamos Lab uses computational analysis of 6000 coronavirus sequences to conclude that a mutated strain is now dominant. Clinical implications remain unknown and study needs to be peer -reviewed and published.
April 27, 2020 Epidemiology Public Health officials are wary of a “herd-immunity” strategy as a means of reopening our economy.
April 22, 2020 Emergency Medicine 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?
April 17, 2020 Epidemiology 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.
April 15, 2020 Clinical Research 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.
April 14, 2020 Epidemiology 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.
April 13, 2020 Epidemiology Spartan Bioscience receives Health Canada approval of new SARS-Cov2 testing devices. We discuss the implications for public health policy.
April 3, 2020 Epidemiology Ontario Government to release SARS-CoV-2 models correctly recognizing that the public can handle the truth.