On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of CTV Montreal (CFCF Channel 12), I wrote a nostalgic blog about the station with references to Magic Tom, Johnny Jellybean and others. One story I shared had to do with former reporter
Howard Schwartz and how nice he was when I was sent to shadow him one day as a young journalism student. He emailed me last week and we ended up having a nice telephone conversation to catch up.
Howard worked for the then Pulse News from 1982 to 1995. He left to pursue some work in communications in the pharmaceutical industry. In 1999 he suffered a severe head injury at a waterpark and was left with amnesia for seven years. He was married to an American at the time and they moved to Connecticut. Fortunately, he overcame this obstacle and regained most of his memory. He ended up getting remarried to someone from Montreal, stayed in Connecticut and first did some radio work and then became the communications manager for a Roman Catholic Missionary â quit
A new study published January 15 in JAMA Internal Medicine, led by Drs. Todd Lee and Emily McDonald from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), confirms the efficiency of saliva testing for COVID-19. This follows a study published earlier in the week by another RI-MUHC team showing that saliva samples for COVID-19 testing are as good as nasopharyngeal swabs, but cheaper. These findings could rapidly influence global public health policy for testing strategies.
âPrevious studies on the performance of saliva tests showed mixed results, but most of them compared saliva tests to the standard nasal swab test, as if it was a perfect test. Interestingly, there are no perfect tests for COVID-19,â says Dr. Guillaume Butler-Laporte, first author of the study released today.
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