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Ontario to release ‘stark’ COVID-19 projections Friday

April 3, 2020

Ontario to release ‘stark’ COVID-19 projections Friday Premier Doug Ford promising a ‘sobering discussion’ about the coronavirus Provincial health experts are expected to provide a briefing Friday on modelling projections for the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario. At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Premier Doug Ford promised health officials would explain “where this could go.” […]

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Globalization and Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains

March 4, 2020

Globalization and Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains The grave risks and dangers in the process of worldwide out-sourcing and so-called globalization of the past 30 years or so are becoming starkly clear as the ongoing health emergency across China threatens vital world supply chains from China to the rest of the world. While much attention […]

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Code blue: Pandemics and hospital surge capacity in a just-in-time world

February 5, 2020

Code blue: Pandemics and hospital surge capacity in a just-in-time world We may be about to see the sad fruits of so-called just-in-time (JIT) inventory systems applied to hospitals in the United States and elsewhere. Fourteen years ago I first wrote about the vulnerabilities of such systems across society including health care systems. (Other observers have more recently noted this […]

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Ebola Clinical Illness in Well-Described Patients: The US healthcare system can only successfully handle a little Ebola Washington’s Blog

November 16, 2014

Ebola Clinical Illness in Well-Described Patients: The US healthcare system can only successfully handle a little Ebola Washington’s Blog. Let me start this piece with the bottom line: I want to be clear that patients with Ebola virus disease are sicker, in general, than patients with any other medical condition, in the US or anywhere else. They are […]

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