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BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... reported in BC.[ 1 ] COVID-19 disproportionately affects people who use substances, including risk of transmission, ... (SARS-CoV-2) infection, and drug overdose risk. How are people who use substances impacted by COVID-19? People who use substances are often socioeconomically ...
News, COVID-19 May 2020
... who do not have severe or critical disease. This is about people in the community struggling to determine if they might ...
News, COVID-19 June 2020
... during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, people living with arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis, ... What is not known is how the pandemic has impacted people with arthritis and how to better support arthritis ... Through surveys and interviews, the UNIFIED study will ask people living with arthritis how COVID-19 has affected access ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Kristina Jenei, BSN September 2020
... worldwide and over 700 000 deaths.[ 3 ] Billions of people around the globe have been ordered to shelter in ... and preserve a lack of safety nets. And the challenges people face in the Western world pale in comparison to those ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD December 2020
... assembled to cope with the anticipated surge of ill people. Surgeries were canceled. Offices were closed. We ... my optimism. I know that this virus, no matter how many people it impacts, no matter what new obstacles it presents, ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC July/August 2020
... were a diverse group of World War II veterans, Indigenous people, and patients who had survived the brutal Hong Kong ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB May 2020
... of panic. Those of us who are exposing ourselves daily to people who could potentially make us very sick or even kill ... rigorous testing and contact tracing, strict controls on people’s movement (border controls and social distancing), ... we stopped testing widely, and the controls on people’s movement were perhaps 1 or 2 weeks too late, and ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Jan Hajek, MD November 2020
... bacteria emerged, entered our food supply, and made people sick.[ 10 ] It took years of international and public ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2020
... while COVID-19 preferentially targets frail elderly people. The most striking feature of pandemics is their ... a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell... Deal gently then with this ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
... 2 ] As of 6 September 2020, more than 27 million people worldwide have been infected and more than 900 000 ...