Dr. Brown: Six months of COVID-19
Dr. William Brown is a professor of neurology at McMaster University and co-founder of the Infohealth series held at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library. Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report In late
Dr. William Brown is a professor of neurology at McMaster University and co-founder of the Infohealth series at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library.
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Dr. Brown: Promising progress on COVID vaccines
Dr. William BrownSpecial to The Lake Report There have been encouraging results for two mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19, the most promising of which is the Oxford vaccine. Traditionally, vaccine development takes three to
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Dr. Brown: The birth, death and rebirth of stars????
Dr. William Brown is a professor of neurology at McMaster University and co-founder of the Infohealth series at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library. Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report As stars go,
Dr. Brown: Science and Nobel series return to NOTL library virtually
Dr. William BrownSpecial to The Lake Report Established programs at the Niagara-on-the-Lake library, such as Infohealth and the Nobel series, won’t be the same this fall because of the need for social distancing. That means no face-to-face meetings in the
Dr. Brown: Beware, COVID is not over andNOTLers remain vulnerable
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report The last week has been a terrible lesson in how not to open up in the face of an active pandemic, what with record numbers of new
Dr. Brown: We need to be wary of future waves of COVID-19
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report From the beginning in China six to seven months ago, COVID-19 spread like a series of viral wildfires throughout the world, infecting, as of late last
Dr. Brown: There’s a long list of after effects of COVID-19 for patients
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Patients, who recover from COVID-19 – especially those sick enough to need care in an intensive care unit and assisted ventilation – often report fatigue, trouble focusing and
COVID-19: Dr. Brown: Anti-viral drugs could be the answer
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report My article on COVID-19 last week was about the importance of achieving herd immunity in the majority of the population as a means of reducing the risk
PANDEMIC BLOG: By Dr. William Brown
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Dr. Brown: The pathology of COVID-19lungs
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Given that the most common cause of death in COVID-19 is what’s been aptly called ARDS (Acute Respiratory Disease Syndrome), understanding what’s going on in the lungs
Dr. Brown: Whens this pandemic going to end? Not anytime soon
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
Dr. Brown: An imaginativealternative to the pandemic: Change the universe
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
COVID-19: Dr. Brown: Virus mutates slowly, as search for vaccine accelerates
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
COVID-19: Dr. Brown: Humans are sociable and isolation takes a toll on us
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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COVID-19: Dr. Brown: Pulse oximeter can be key pandemic tool
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. Brown: Fast-track learning about COVID-19
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
COVID-19: Dr. Brown: Black Swans and the pandemic
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. Brown: COVID and long-term care homes
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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COVID-19: Dr. Brown: No life-saving measures if I become breathless with COVID
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: Priorities in an overwhelming pandemic
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. Brown: How the coronavirus attacks
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. Brown: We all need to do our part on COVID-19
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. Brown: What the future holds: Part 1
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. Brown: Nurse practitioners have an increasingly important role to play
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. Brown: Chimpanzees and humans
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
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