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Together, Peel and Toronto accounted for about half of the new cases in the province reported Monday afternoon. Dionne Aleman, a professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto and expert in pandemic modeling, said Peel’s case numbers were…
“Any limitation in our ability to test the population will have an impact on our knowledge of what is happening with the spread of the disease, and therefore on our ability to control it in a targeted manner,” said Dionne…
People of colour are at higher risk from COVID-19 for numerous social and economic reasons, experts say. Dionne Aleman, an affiliate of the Institute for Health Policy and CHE and associate professor at the University of Toronto, said there is…
“Unfortunately, the hard reality is that we don’t know that much [about transmission sources of COVID-19].” “Without being able to do extensive contact tracing, it’s hard to know what’s exactly happening, and without knowing exactly what’s happening, it becomes virtually…
“Unfortunately, the hard reality is that we don’t know that much,” said Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto engineering professor and CHE affiliate who studies health-related systems. “Without being able to do extensive contact tracing, it’s hard to know what’s…
Every cancer patient’s experience is unique but there are standard sequences of steps that help patients and their care teams navigate through screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. These steps are published in pathway maps but are these maps followed in…
The Center for Digital Health at Mayo Clinic is hiring a Senior Data Science Analyst to join a team that will focus on scheduling optimization, creating algorithms that enable connecting the optimal scheduling. The candidate for this role will build…
In Ontario, the Toronto Star reported that hundreds of COVID-19 infections may be going undetected each week because far fewer Ontarians are getting tested on the weekend, leaving possibly infected people more time to expose other people, according to University…
8 p.m. Hundreds of COVID-19 infections may be going undetected each week in Ontario because the province is regularly failing to use its full capacity to test for the disease, experts warn. The problem is a weekly pattern that’s been…
“Far fewer Ontarians are getting tested on the weekend. This, in turn, has led to a weekly up-down testing cycle that may be making it harder to control what’s happening in Ontario’s second wave, says Dionne Aleman, a University of…
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