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Campbell, D. and Bannock, C. 2021. “Up to 100 UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease.” The Guardian UK, Fri 5 Feb 2021

Up to 100 children a week are being hospitalised with a rare disease that can emerge weeks after Covid-19, leaving them in intensive care, doctors have said. In a phenomenon that is worrying paediatricians, 75% of the children worst affected by paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome (PIMS) were black, Asian or ethnic minority (BAME). Almost four […]

Azimi, P., Keshavarz, Z., et al. 2021. “Mechanistic transmission modeling of COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship demonstrates the importance of aerosol transmission.” PNAS February 23, 2021 118 (8) e2015482118;

We find that airborne transmission likely accounted for >50% of disease transmission on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which includes inhalation of aerosols during close contact as well as longer range. These findings underscore the importance of implementing public health measures that target the control of inhalation of aerosols in addition to ongoing measures targeting control of […]

We don’t need to fight for something we already have, we just need to hold it up

If people are asked to do something, but they do not know WHY they are doing it, then they will just be going through the motions. This is our situation in Ontario. People are mostly kind, especially here in Kingston. They say Canadians are polite. Let me introduce you to Kingstonians. Not every single one, […]

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