February 17, 2021 Epidemiology Oops! Didn’t think That would happen: Technology Executive Apologizes After Dozens of Event Attendees Contract Covid-19 ????
February 8, 2021 Epidemiology Some governments and businesses are preparing for the reality of endemic Covid-19 according to report in @WSJ
February 5, 2021 General information Do people need a mask upgrade? @WSJ reviews the studies and some of the recommendations.
January 29, 2021 Epidemiology The variant is to model outcome predictions as Asimov’s Foundation series’ Mule was in Hari Seldon’s Psychohistory projections. Extracting six doses per vial instead of five is like Jean Luc Picard being told there are five lights when there are four.
January 13, 2021 Clinical Research The Lancet Long-COVID study reports the significant impact the disease has wrought six months after hospitalization. Please let’s help each other prevent these outcomes.
December 30, 2020 General information Please, no spin. Just explain why Canada’s vaccine rollout is running slower than molasses. We are an understanding lot but not when you are not straight with us.
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.
December 16, 2020 Emergency Medicine Ontario hospitals alerted to prepare for a spike in COVID-19 patients as hospital ICU admissions approach capacity affecting ability to meet increasing demands for both COVID and non-COVID-related care
December 9, 2020 General information And now, predictably, the social media pseudoscientists with their motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, Texas shotgun, causality fallacies and cherry-picked data have turned their sites on the coronavirus vaccines. #VaccinesWork #GoScience