Health Headlines Commentary for October 19, 2016
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Here’s why maggots could be key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs
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- PM Trudeau, your flouting of pandemic health policy rules demoralizes the country. Armchair “physicians”, stop flaunting cherry-picked preprint studies as “the” evidence HCQ works when there are just as many that refute it. That is why proper investigation and meta-analysis are required.
- Pandemic-related public health measures reduced rates of Respiratory Syncytial virus (RSV) infection in infants and children. Resurgence anticipated as measures ease this coming winter. #RSV
- 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.