November 30, 2020 Health Policy What should the public health policy strategy be if someone refuses to be vaccinated against Sars-CoV-2?
November 11, 2019 General information Ottawa school has greatest philosophical vaccine exemption rate. The California policy change to eliminate it reversed this outcome in their schools.
October 9, 2019 General information U.S. maintains its measles elimination status for now but vaccine misinformation by antivaxxers continues to whittle away at it. Your (grand)mother and (grand)father would not be proud;they remember our disease history. Children suffered damage and died.
September 25, 2019 Wednesday House Call Wednesday House Call, September 25, 2019: Calls for elimination of non-medical vaccine exemptions in Ontario
September 17, 2019 Health Policy Toronto Medical Officer of Health says province should scrap philosophical and religious exemptions for student vaccinations
March 29, 2019 Infectious Disease Welcome to the Bizzaro World where anti-vax pseudoscience is used by an arbitrator to support a mother’s anti-immunization stance even after the children developed whooping cough during the arbitration period.
March 20, 2019 Health Policy Why is Health Canada contributing to the legitimacy of homeopathic “vaccines” (nosodes) by providing a license, when they lack any clinical efficacy?
March 17, 2019 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #687, March 17, 2019: Despite protestations to the contrary, the evidence shows that mandatory vaccine laws work, are accepted by the majority, and have a dramatic positive effect increasing herd immunity thus preventing childhood infectious disease.
February 15, 2019 General information The wonderful world of cognitive dissonance. Thanks to Darla Shine for beautifully demonstrating this response in addition to the Dunning-Kruger Effect.