Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 18, 2020
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- Unpublished non-peer-reviewed short-term study on possible COVID-19-induced cognitive decline used self-reported unverified data with no baseline controls or knowledge of the patients cognitive status prior to infection.
- 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.
- Quebec proposes one Covid vaccine for those who were previously infected without any substantive evidence to support such a policy change.