November 30, 2020 Health Policy What should the public health policy strategy be if someone refuses to be vaccinated against Sars-CoV-2?
November 26, 2020 Health Policy There are solutions, should it occur, to reduce the incidence of non-adherence to the two dose schedule required for the coronavirus vaccines. What is Canada’s plan?
November 25, 2020 Health Policy Canada will have to wait in line for coronavirus vaccine while other countries receive it first. What policies were in place that allowed them to have the manufacturing infrastructure to supply their citizens with earlier access?
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 10, 2020 Clinical Research Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine news is a press release not a study. No raw data to review, limited transparency, basic questions unanswered, 94 cases, and an overreaction focusing on the claim of 90% efficacy. Validated evidence required to justify the hype.
November 6, 2020 Health Policy National Advisory Committee on Immunization prioritizes four groups to first receive Covid-19 vaccine but does not provide the distribution framework whilst the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine does so with caveats.
November 3, 2020 Clinical Research The vaccine development process is still beholden to clinical trial realities and barriers that are beyond our control. Predicting when we will have a Covid-19 vaccine is a mug’s game. Could be tomorrow, could be next year.
October 21, 2020 Clinical Research Researchers are doing their job when clinical trials are put on hold. Data and safety monitoring are part of the process. There are no shortcuts even for the Covid-19 vaccines in development.
October 20, 2020 Clinical Research Purposefully infecting vaccine-study volunteers with coronavirus to speed up the development and approval process is unethical and fraught with the law of unintended consequences.
October 7, 2020 Science and Media Reporting If you are the WHO boss suggesting that a COVID vaccine MAY be available by the end of the year, provide the evidence to justify the hope, else be prepared for another journey into the nadir of credibility and subsequent irrelevance if you are wrong.