Vancouver startup bet it would sell a bunch of ventilators. It was wrong.
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, there was generalized panic about whether...
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 19, 2021 | coronavirus treatments, COVID19, Health Canada, ICU, lungs, nurses, ventilation | 0
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, there was generalized panic about whether...
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 13, 2021 | BC health, Pfizer vaccine, physicians, vaccinations, Vancouver Coastal Health | 1
Doctors who jumped the queue to get their second doses of COVID-19 vaccine are being investigated and may be disciplined.
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 12, 2021 | coronavirus treatments, COVID19, prevention | 0
Some physicians recommend over-the-counter melatonin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 11, 2021 | Health Canada, healthcare workers, N95 masks, PPE | 0
B.C. company – Eternity Medical Masks – gets Health Canada and CSA approvals for PPE production
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 8, 2021 | Canada, healthcare workers, ICU, long term care, Moderna vaccine, Pfizer vaccine, physicians, vaccinations | 0
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN A Fraser Health physician leader, Dr. Dayan Muthayan, circulated an internal...
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 6, 2021 | COVID19, field hospitals, healthcare workers, PPE, private COVID-19 tests, rapid COVID-19 tests, travel | 0
Pamela Fayerman lists the most popular MedicineMatters.ca posts of the year
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Jan 4, 2021 | Health Canada, Moderna vaccine, Pfizer, vaccination, vaccinations | 0
The U.S. CDC now says that individuals with allergies to ingredients in vaccinations should not be immunized with mRNA vaccines. Canada now reporting adverse events.
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Dec 28, 2020 | BC health, COVID19, healthcare workers, nurses, vaccinations | 0
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN As of today, healthcare workers and residents in long term care will be the...
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Dec 24, 2020 | BC health, BCCDC, care aides, COVID19, healthcare workers, long term care, nurses, vaccination | 0
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Vancouver hospital and other frontline health workers lined up for hours the...
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Dec 23, 2020 | BC health, COVID19, healthcare workers, hospitals, ICU | 0
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Since the pandemic began, well over 100 patients have survived COVID-19...
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Dec 18, 2020 | antibodies, COVID19, vaccination | 0
If you’ve already had COVID-19, should you still get vaccinated? It’s muddled.
Read Moreby Pamela Fayerman | Dec 15, 2020 | BC health, COVID19, healthcare workers, hospitals, ICU, Pfizer vaccine, Vancouver | 0
The B.C. government has released photos and videos of the pivotal moments when UPS staff...
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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.
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A new presidency starts tomorrow, so I took a look at the energy landscape Biden will be inheriting.
Turns out, the power industry is overwhelmingly picking clean energy already. It's Congress that is lagging behind.
https://brightideas.substack.com/p/the-energy-landscape-biden-inherits
My latest story: Vancouver medical device startup bet it would sell a bunch of ventilators for COVID-19 patients. It was wrong. https://medicinematters.ca/vancouver-startup-bet-it-would-sell-a-bunch-of-ventilators-it-was-wrong/
BC COVID-19 UPDATE;
465 new cases - total of 61,912
12 more deaths - total of 1,090
4,331 active cases
329 hospitalized, 70 in intensive care
6,864 people under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure
92,369 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered
This brought tears: COVID-19 Vaccination Day at the nursing home where my mom lived the last year of her life. https://youtu.be/9Mqwr9aCcMA via @YouTube @VCHhealthcare #LTC
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