Posts Categorized: COVID-19
New audio available for media use: Hospital and operations management expert Timothy Chan (CHE Faculty Affiliate) on the lessons hospitals learned during the pandemic. Recordings at: INFORMS News Room
“While we know that children are much less likely to have severe outcomes from contracting COVID, they can be vectors of spread to their households, to their teachers and to the community,” University of Toronto associate professor Dionne Aleman and…
Even if Omicron does turn out to be more mild than other variants, the mere transmissibility of it could spell trouble for Ontario’s health system, said Dionne Aleman, professor of engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto specializing…
Dr. Dionne Aleman agrees. The professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto has an expertise in pandemic planning and says moving a test online is a simple step to take. “It can dramatically cut down…
While the timing of the announcement has some worried, other people, like the University of Toronto’s Dionne Aleman, a CHE affiliate and an expert on COVID-19 modelling and how it spreads in an urban environment, disagree. “It’s reasonable to begin…
The disruptions caused by COVID-19 have left hospitals across North America with massive backlogs of postponed elective surgeries. Many of these patients will also need rehabilitation following their surgeries, and managing this patient flow through the hospitals is a complex…
Dionne Aleman is an industrial engineering professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto and researches pandemic modelling. Aleman says that even though Ontario’s COVID-19 cases are growing, the effective reproduction number is decreasing. This doesn’t mean that cases…
Dr. Dionne Aleman, CHE affiliate from the University of Toronto, who focuses on pandemic planning says fully opening the border “poses a more risky situation” since the U.S. statistically is still struggling with numbers that would be “commensurate with herd…
The Scott Thompson Show talks news, politics, and pop culture. A unique perspective from someone who likes to talk. – The U.S. will not be opening its borders to non-essential travel until at least August 22, while Canada is already…
“Vaccine uptake will inevitably wane within the next couple months,” said Dionne M. Aleman, an associate professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto in an email Thursday. Aleman said that Canadians who wanted their two…
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