September 27, 2021 Clinical Research Retracted Canadian study that reported 1/1000 risk of myocarditis from mRNA vaccine weaponized by anti-vaccination websites despite data correction by the authors to 1/25,000. Review system worked to uncover error but damage now done.
September 24, 2021 Clinical Research If you are fully vaccinated, you are not as likely to spread the Coronavirus compared to the unvaccinated. #vaccineswork
September 10, 2021 Alternative Medicine The unfortunate, yet predictable ICU admission population. In B.C. all under the age of 50 are unvaccinated. Needless suffering for them and their families. Please be well and remain so by getting vaccinated. Be there for your children. #VaccinesWork
September 9, 2021 Clinical Research Latest information indicates that booster shots are not needed for most Canadians with several important exceptions. Science, like time is not static, and will help determine if this recommendation will change over time. #VaccinesWork #GoScience
September 7, 2021 Health Policy Unfortunately what is happening in Manitoba with younger people accounting for the bulk of new COVID-19 cases is a harbinger of what is likely to happen in Ontario.
August 20, 2021 Epidemiology As the SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to evolve, how will they change the pandemic? Detailed article in Science provides some of the details. https://bit.ly/37WKBtK
August 16, 2021 Health Policy The Atlantic explains how the Delta variant is affecting children in the US especially in areas with low vaccination rates. There is understandable trepidation for unvaccinated Canadian children returning to school.
August 6, 2021 Allergy/Immunology Retrospective study finds that the flu vaccine has benefits against severe effects of COVID-19. How it does this remains unknown but if true, it will be fascinating and enlightening to figure out how our immune response works in this setting.
August 4, 2021 Epidemiology Imperial College London study provides more evidence that a double-vaccinated person is engaging in a classic and time-honoured risk-and-harm-reduction strategy. #vaccineswork
August 3, 2021 Epidemiology UK scientists’ early theoretical research forewarns of another coronavirus variant to come that will “lead to current vaccine failure.”