April 15, 2021 Epidemiology Ottawa’s Associate Medical Office of Health reports that the COVID situation in the city is dire. Health care system at “significant risk” of breaking down as hospital admissions are doubling every 12 days.
April 12, 2021 Health Statistics Observational study suggests that 1 in 3 COVID-19 may have long-term psychiatric and neurological consequences six months after infection
April 6, 2021 Epidemiology Ottawa’s Medical Officer of Health co-signs letter urging Ontario Government to issue-stay-at-home order because of rising Covid-19 infection rates and ICU admissions.
April 4, 2021 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #784, April 4, 2021: The world as we see it.
March 26, 2021 Epidemiology No hard evidence that a small number of people who had flu vaccine had less risk of Covid-19 infections. Socioeconomic and environmental factors at play among other more likely explanations.
March 25, 2021 Epidemiology Ontario Science Table’s report and review of the data on Covid-19 screening of LTC home staff states, “there is no available real-world evidence to support or refute the benefits of screen testing in preventing LTC home COVID-19 outbreaks”.
March 24, 2021 Health Policy Quebec proposes one Covid vaccine for those who were previously infected without any substantive evidence to support such a policy change.
March 18, 2021 Epidemiology The slow decline of Covid-19 case counts in Canada seems to have ended for now according to Dr. Tam’s analysis of the latest data. Vaccine procurement and subsequent distribution remains the wild card to get out of the pandemic’s version of Groundhog Day.
March 17, 2021 Health Policy Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches states that Ottawa headed for Covid-19 red zone designation again this coming week. If true, why wait for it to become worse by delaying the official change?
March 15, 2021 Endocrinology Physicians and researchers noticing sudden development of diabetes in some people following Covid infection.
