July 9, 2021 Infectious Disease @billcarrolltalk rightly points out that the unvaccinated will increase chance of more variant strains. Listener texts that he is “moronic” because it will mutate anyway in the environment. Not so. It needs a human host. It doesn’t mutate in the dirt.
July 6, 2021 Clinical Research Ontario study reports that one dose is good but two doses are better against variants. Keep on keeping on. #vaccineswork
June 25, 2021 Epidemiology Latest CDC data indicates that COVID is rapidly becoming a disease of the unvaccinated. #VaccinesWork #GoScience
May 25, 2021 Health Policy Second dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine needed to reach maximum efficacy against variant from India.
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.
April 30, 2021 Clinical Research Preprint study evaluated entire Scottish population and calls into question delaying second Covid vaccine dose up to 12 weeks. After first dose it noted a drop in preventing hospitalization from 84% at 5 weeks to 58% after the 7th. And after 16 weeks?
April 8, 2021 Health Policy NACI stands by its four month dosing interval but does not provide further evidence that this will work well for all age groups and for those with complicating medical conditions. Hope the gamble works (truly, no sarcasm).
March 31, 2021 Clinical Research CDC releases study showing that mRNA vaccines perform almost the same in the real world as they did in the lab. Further indications are they prevent disease and its transmission.
March 30, 2021 Epidemiology It now does not matter that the AZ vaccine is safe, the multiple contradictory policy reversals may have irreversibly damaged the public’s confidence in it.
March 29, 2021 Epidemiology Canada’s decision to delay second doses of Covid-19 vaccines by four months may not result in the positive outcome expected for certain groups.