December 2, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Antibody testing for COVID-19 may satisfy your curiosity and provide a false sense of protection but will not change the outcome of what we need to continue to do. Not enough is known about immunity duration or transmission potential after infection.
November 30, 2020 Health Policy What should the public health policy strategy be if someone refuses to be vaccinated against Sars-CoV-2?
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 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 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 19, 2020 Health Policy Can Health Canada explain why there has been a dearth of approval for rapid Covid-19 testing when the EU Commission has recommended them for widespread use? (no sarcasm intended)
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 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.
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.
