COVID-19

How do you retain your best pharmacy staff?
We have all experienced various aspects of change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our lives have altered in ways we had never imagined. Our experience and relationship with our environment have become more tense and cautious. Our faces are half covered to prevent infection and our fear of COVID-19 infection dictates the way we behave. When it comes to business, how has this pandemic changed the pharmacy labour force scene?
Beyond the headlines: Examining the methodology of the Johns Hopkins paper that suggests lockdowns barely reduced mortality
Critics of public health measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19 continue to cite a working paper by economists at Johns Hopkins University, but the paper has been criticized by others. Here's what experts are saying about its strengths and weaknesses.

Great saves: Hats off and tick tricks

Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Clover Hemans shared how in the brief encounter of giving a COVID-19 vaccine, many other patient problems get noticed.
Laying of hands

Sometimes a good night in the ER can help soothe the boredom and burnout.
Swabbing floors to detect COVID-19 could be a useful indicator of the disease’s spread

Omicron spreads so quickly that it is no longer feasible to use individual testing to track how many people are infected in a population. And that means we no longer have the basic information we need to inform public health mitigation policies. New strategies for keeping tabs on the virus are needed.
Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co founder, dies at 62

Partners in Health confirmed Farmer's death Monday. The Boston-based organization said Farmer "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda,'' where he had been teaching.
Physician assistants could fill part of B.C.'s need for more doctors: advocates
Gut microbe mix may indicate risk for long-COVID

Microbiome profiling could help predict symptoms
Tamara Lich, key organizer of anti vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa, denied bail

An Ontario court judge issued the decision in Ottawa this morning, saying she believed there was a substantial likelihood Lich would reoffend if released.
Where will Nuvaxovid—the first protein subunit COVID-19 vaccine—fit in?

It will be an option for people unable or unwilling to receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

How do you retain your best pharmacy staff?

Beyond the headlines: Examining the methodology of the Johns Hopkins paper that suggests lockdowns barely reduced mortality

Great saves: Hats off and tick tricks

Laying of hands

Swabbing floors to detect COVID-19 could be a useful indicator of the disease’s spread

Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co founder, dies at 62

Physician assistants could fill part of B.C.'s need for more doctors: advocates

Gut microbe mix may indicate risk for long-COVID

Tamara Lich, key organizer of anti vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa, denied bail

Where will Nuvaxovid—the first protein subunit COVID-19 vaccine—fit in?