Tag Archives: COVID19

Mixing COVID-19 vaccines could be making the best ‘of a bad situation’

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Health Canada With AstraZeneca delays, and 36 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna scheduled to come, mixing for potentially hundreds of thousands of people may become unavoidable Author of the article: Sharon Kirkey Publishing date: May 05, 2021  •  4 hours ago  •  5 minute read  •  29 Comments A Peel Region… Read More »

Tech sites hype Apple Watch for COVID-19 prediction without providing the evidence

Milwaukee oncologist Michael Thompson, MD, wrote to me yesterday morning (February 10)  about an article – “New Study Suggests Apple Watch Heart Rate Sensor Can Predict COVID-19 Up to a Week Before a Swab Test” – promoted on Twitter by MacRumors.com. The story was about the so-called Warrior Watch Study at Mount Sinai Medical Center in… Read More »

Inactivity increases risk of COVID-19 death, study suggests

A recent study of nearly 50,000 coronavirus patients found that those who were consistently inactive were at greater risk of death due to the virus than those who engaged in exercise. The study, which relied on the “Exercise Vital Sign” measurement developed by Kaiser Permanente Southern California, found that even those who were active on… Read More »