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If Quebec and Canada can get to an “85-ish per cent” vaccination rate, there’s a chance we can attain a type of herd immunity that would relegate COVID-19 to the ranks of an annoying common cold, immunologists forecast.
Throwing a large wrench into this prognostication, however, is the emergence of variants that are more transmissible, more adept at evading the body’s immune response, or less likely to be suppressed by vaccines designed to quell the original version of the disease.
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The MUHC Foundation announced on Monday it has received a $5-million donation, nearly half of which will be used to support and train nurses.
While much of the donation from the estate of Herta Vodstrcil will be used to support various departments and research at the McGill University Health Centre, a total of $2.25 million of the funding will be directed toward the training and support of nurses at the MUHC over the next three years.
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Meet our Montrealer of the Month: Christian Sambou I m a man of action, you know? I move a lot, I love moving, I love talking, I love encouraging people.
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Christian Sambou is a security guard at the McGill University Health Centre’s Glen Site COVID-19 screening clinic.(Submitted by Christian Sambou)
MONTREAL The risk of developing serious blood clots from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is similar to the chances of being struck by lightning, the chief physician at the McGill University Health Centre said Wednesday.
Dr. Marc Rodger offered the comparison following Tuesday s news that a 54-year-old Quebec woman died April 23 from a blood clot that developed after she got the vaccine.
Rodger said the death of Francine Boyer is absolutely tragic, but the risk of COVID-19 for people who aren t vaccinated is exponentially higher than for those who are. The risk seems to be in the one-in-100,000 range, he said in an interview, about blood clots. To put that in context, that s similar risk to being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
MORRISVILLE, N.C., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A new peer-reviewed study accepted in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging validated Myocardial Solutions ( MSI ) technologies MyoStrain and MyoStress in a new stress testing protocol utilizing a hyperventilation breath-hold (HVBH) maneuver to accurately detect myocardial ischemia. The article demonstrated MyoStrain s speed and sensitivity to successfully measure cardiac stress during a safe, simple breathing maneuver. This novel technique may provide clinicians with a faster and safer quantitative stress test to help improve the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease without any pharmacological or physical stress protocols.[1]
Results showed the MyoStrain/MyoStress HVBH maneuver yielded greater accuracy over traditional stress testing methods for the detection of myocardial ischemia. HVBH exam times were significantly shorter and were performed without contrast agents or pharmaco