April 28, 2020 Clinical Research No hype, no promises but Oxford coronavirus vaccine research is moving ahead with larger scale human trials
April 27, 2020 Epidemiology Public Health officials are wary of a “herd-immunity” strategy as a means of reopening our economy.
April 26, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #736, April 26, 2020: Guarding against fake health news from the White House to websites.
April 22, 2020 Emergency Medicine This coming winter may see a confluence of the flu and Sars-CoV-2 infections. Can the health care system cope if this scenario arrives?
April 17, 2020 Epidemiology The road back will depend on the expertise of physicians like Dr. Fauci and not the Dunning-Krugerites Dr. Oz and his friends at Fox News among others. There is a moral(e) imperative to provide the public with a plan to resume some semblance of our lives.
April 15, 2020 Clinical Research 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.
April 13, 2020 Epidemiology Spartan Bioscience receives Health Canada approval of new SARS-Cov2 testing devices. We discuss the implications for public health policy.
April 12, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #734, April 12, 2020: The Other Curve to Flatten. The Deluge Will Come. Also, please don’t inhale nebulized hydrogen peroxide to treat your viral respiratory infection.
April 9, 2020 Emergency Medicine The eight seniors who died in a residential home from COVID-19 did not die because they would have anyway. To use this reasoning is a kudo to cognitive dissonance.