October 29, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Vulnerable populations to be the focus in a new Canadian COVID-19 antibody study.
October 28, 2020 Clinical Research Unpublished non-peer-reviewed short-term study on possible COVID-19-induced cognitive decline used self-reported unverified data with no baseline controls or knowledge of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.
October 27, 2020 Health Policy How will Canada clear the health care backlog caused by the pandemic? CMA releases report outlining some of the issues but does not include primary care and disease prevention.
October 26, 2020 Epidemiology Testing and contact tracing programs can be bolstered by home testing according to PNAS report. Researchers are trying to develop easy-to-use home tests.
October 25, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #762, October 25, 2020: “Worth its weight in salt”
October 23, 2020 Epidemiology Superspeader events are an illustration of how unforgiving COVID-19 transmission is of human behaviour/decisions when one person can cause many others to get sick.
October 22, 2020 Epidemiology COVID-19 outbreaks noted in some Ottawa sports teams. Contact tracing needed to determine if the activity itself is a contributing factor. Plus, the CDC guideline change; should one data point alter policy recommendations?
October 21, 2020 Clinical Research Researchers are doing their job when clinical trials are put on hold. Data and safety monitoring are part of the process. There are no shortcuts even for the Covid-19 vaccines in development.
October 20, 2020 Clinical Research Purposefully infecting vaccine-study volunteers with coronavirus to speed up the development and approval process is unethical and fraught with the law of unintended consequences.
October 19, 2020 Epidemiology Sweden’s government decides to (partially) reverse course on their public health approach to the pandemic.
