/oss/taxonomy/term/5556/all en /oss/article/medical/measles-are-back-blame-complacency <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-measles-are-back-blame-complacency">The Montreal Gazette</a>.</em></p> Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:24:08 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9852 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/strange-case-dr-cahill-and-ms-hyde <p>“If you’re under, like, 70 or 65 and you’ve no underlying conditions,<a href="https://youtu.be/A4RvrEKoNxc?t=3542"> </a><a href="https://youtu.be/A4RvrEKoNxc?t=3542">this is all a hoax</a>.” You’d be forgiven for thinking that this wild assertion about a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million people worldwide and caused sequelae for an untold number of survivors came from someone who knows nothing of medicine and immunology.</p> Fri, 13 Aug 2021 19:09:29 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8805 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/how-we-know-covid-19-vaccines-work <p>We keep hearing that the COVID-19 vaccines work but some people have asked us, “How do we know that they work?”</p> <p>Luckily, we have a growing trove of data that show that these vaccines are indeed effective against catching the virus, transmitting it to other people, and ending up in the hospital because of it.</p> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:51:58 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8790 at /oss