20 of the most read posts in 2020

Posted by Pamela Fayerman | Jan 6, 2021 | COVID19, field hospitals, healthcare workers, PPE, private COVID-19 tests, rapid COVID-19 tests, travel | 0

20 of the most read posts in 2020

The cavernous field hospital inside the Vancouver Convention Centre.

BY PAMELA FAYERMAN

I started this website last May when it was clear that COVID-19 was a serious threat that would persist for a long time and require news coverage by experienced medical journalists such as myself. It’s gratifying to see how many readers are drawn to the site and I thank you for your interest.

I write most of the articles but submissions are also accepted so if you’re a healthcare provider, researcher or policy expert keen to share your expertise, do reach out.

While COVID-19 is the main topic for this website, any issue in healthcare is considered for publication as long as it adds to our collective knowledge. Article suggestions are also welcome.

As a health/medical journalist for 25 years, I’ve long had a tradition of posting an annual list of the articles that have drawn the highest metrics (readership). Here, then, are the posts that resonated the most with readers in 2020; click each title to read the piece:

Downtown Vancouver field hospital ready for first patients

2. Private mobile lab service offering COVID-19 tests

3. 25% of COVID-19 cases have been in healthcare workers

4. COVID-19 long haulers plead for more medical attention

5. Medical regulator shuts down private COVID tests

6. Ribbons around a giving tree for a nurse with COVID-19

7. Queue jumping for COVID vaccinations

8. Gargle and spit for COVID tests

9. 15-minute-pre-flight-rapid-covid-19-testing-launches-today-in-vancouver-for-westjet-passengers/

10. Can dogs sniff out COVID-19? Veterinarians conduct that research

11. 150% increase in COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers

12. Filipino healthcare workers hit hard by COVID; we need to know

13. Doodles while on Zoom; Vancouver professor shares hers

14. Family doctors as frustrated and frazzled as their patients

15. Married Vancouver physician leaders chat over Zoom with Rabbi

16. COVID-19 testing before surgery

17. Rapid testing in long term care

18. The special exemption Dr. Bonnie Henry ordered for COVID-19 research

19. More than 800 COVID-19 infections in healthcare workers; full breakdown here

20. Not one passenger has gotten COVID-19 on WestJet according to airline and airport authority

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Website Author: Pamela Fayerman

Pamela Fayerman

I'm an award winning Canadian journalist for nearly four decades. I’ve worked at six daily newspapers, and for 25 years, I was the medical/health issues reporter for The Vancouver Sun and other newspapers in Canada’s largest newspaper chain. My professional development has been assisted with numerous fellowships awarded by the Association of Health Care Journalists, New York Times Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Knight Science Journalism. I’ve received training in various aspects of medical journalism at Columbia University (neuroscience), MIT (medical evidence and digital science journalism), Mount Sinai Medical Center (aging) and Dartmouth College medical school (Medicine in the Media).

I graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in journalism and attended Queen’s University law school on a one-year legal journalism fellowship from the Canadian Bar Association.

I’m the recipient of several prestigious journalism awards as well as two major grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, one for a series on patient navigators and another for a series that focused on knowledge translation as it pertains to fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer.

My goal for this website is to share valuable information that will help readers learn about health care, research and medical advancements.