June 14, 2021 Allergy/Immunology What should your #seconddose of #covidvaccine be if 1st was AZ? Factors include wait-time/availability, Delta variant prevalence, occupational risks, and study evidence. Answer seems to leaning to Pfizer or Moderna as 2nd dose of choice.
June 10, 2021 Health Policy Ontario Medical Association estimates that there is a backlog 16 million medical services including mental health support, surgeries, cancer screening, monitoring of chronic disease, MRIs, and CT scans amongst the myriad of other services.
June 3, 2021 Allergy/Immunology Study concludes that there was no evidence to support vitamin D supplementation in the general population would improve COVID-19 outcomes.
May 25, 2021 Health Policy Second dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine needed to reach maximum efficacy against variant from India.
May 21, 2021 Prevention and Screening JAMA research letter used in part to ask the question, “How effective are the coronavirus vaccines for those who are immunocompromised?” More reason for everyone else to get vaccinated to protect them from Covid.
May 19, 2021 Clinical Research For those who have had AstraZeneca as their first dose, small Spanish study shows that using Pfizer as the second dose is safe and effective. More evaluation and other trials are ongoing but still, good news.
May 14, 2021 Clinical Research Give research the time to answer the question about the need for yearly Covid-19 vaccine boosters given that variants, present and future, will continue to be an issue for a while. Speculation is a mug’s game. Evidence is better.
May 12, 2021 Epidemiology Risk calculus and interpretation changing in Ontario. Public Health recommends suspending first dose of AZ vaccine pending further data analysis. Outcome even if in favour of resumption will not change the erosion of public confidence.
May 5, 2021 Clinical Research U.K. planning to give third Covid booster dose alongside the flu vaccine to people over 50 in the Fall. Studies looking at new variant-adjusted vaccine versus existing one to be used in this process.
May 3, 2021 Allergy/Immunology The development of mRNA vaccine technology has the potential to expand to treat and prevent other diseases akin to the technological spinoffs seen with the Apollo space program.