Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Ever since COVID-19 emerged in China in late November this virus has kept the experts guessing. Despite similarities to SARS – with which COVID-19 shares
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NOTE NEW EXPLANDED HEAD ABOVE Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report We all need a rest from the pandemic – why not try physics? The 20th century was the golden age
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report The genome of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-Cov-2) is small – only 30,000 bases in its single strand of RNA compared to the 3.2 billion bases in
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I’ve been described by my daughter as a natural hermit, to which I confess – but only at times. After all, lots of activities that
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Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Without widespread COVID-19 testing designed to detect the virus in actively infected people and antibodies in those who have recovered, it’s nigh impossible to get
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report With COVID-19 we had some idea of what to expect because of earlier encounters with the SARS and MERS viruses whose genomes resemble that of
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Some liken the current pandemic and financial crises to Black Swan events – rare as the chance of spotting black swans (they exist is Australia, it
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I recently wrote an article in this paper about priorities in the face of limited technical and human resources in this pandemic. Those decisions were
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Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I’m 80 and just days ago had a conversation with my children about what they could realistically do if I become sick with COVID-19. My wife
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report It seems ages ago since the pall of the advancing COVID-19 pandemic descended on the world. What began in China in late 2019, soon overwhelmed
Dr. William BrownSpecial to The Lake Report Unlike simple cells such as bacteria, viruses like the corona family of viruses, travel light: without help they can’t make their own RNA, proteins or generate
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report As the New England Journal of Medicine put it in its editorial on Feb. 20, “for the third time in as many decades, a zoonotic coronavirus
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Nothing with which we are familiar will remain the same; not anyone we know, not our homes, streets, rivers, lakes or coastlines. Not those charming
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Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Much of my career was spent working in specialty clinics in Canada and the United States, such as neuromuscular, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report In 1979, Frans De Waal, then a young primatologist, wrote what turned out to be a bestseller, “Chimpanzee Politics,” which caught the attention and fancy of
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report To hear proponents of evolution speak, evolution was (and is) all about natural selection by favouring certain traits, which might offer some advantage in a competitive
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Three years ago, I wrote a column about sex and the elderly as a promo for an upcoming Infohealth session. We struggled to find a suitable headline and
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Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I played football in high school and remember once “seeing stars” and feeling momentarily stunned after tackling the ball carrier head-on. The sensations lasted only a
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report In one of four pivotal studies in 1905, any one of which would merit a Nobel prize, Albert Einstein revealed that while in common with
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Wolves were domesticated roughly 30,000 years ago and cats about 9,500 years ago – but what about humans? Fossil and DNA records suggest humans may have domesticated
This is the first in an exclusive new regular column by NOTL’s Dr. William Brown. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario school of medicine, Brown trained as a clinical neurologist in Toronto and later as
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