Posts Categorized: COVID-19

Daily during the Provincial and Federal government briefings we are given new measures, policies, and details on how to best “flatten the curve” to stop the rapid spread of COVID-19. As the virus spreads on an unprecedented scale, and new…

Modelling may be imperfect, but policy makers would basically be operating blind without them, says Dionne Aleman, an industrial engineering professor and CHE Affiliate at the University of Toronto. She notes these educated guesses can help answer big questions dogging…

Modelling may be imperfect, but policy makers would basically be operating blind without them, says Dionne Aleman, an industrial engineering professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto. She notes these educated guesses can help answer big questions dogging…

Across the province, 47 per cent of the patients undergoing invasive ventilation have confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, according to April 1 data. Modest influxes of critically ill patients can cause havoc for Ontario hospitals, many of which are…

A member of the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation and an affiliate of CHE at the University of Toronto, Dionne Aleman warned the people saying that that the virus can survive on inanimate surfaces for up to three…

That one health network is already under such strain should be a “red alert” for hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area, said Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor and CHE affiliate expert in pandemic modelling. “Once we start running…

The federal government has announced thousands of new ventilators are on the way for Canada’s hospitals and one expert says they are desperately needed. “The latest numbers I’ve seen in Ontario are that about 25 per cent of the ventilators…

In Alberta, 11 of the province’s 49 hospitalizations – or about 22 per cent – were under 44, though that demographic has only had one ICU admission and one death. Dionne Aleman, a mechanical and industrial engineering professor and CHE…

As well, the National Institutes of Health wrote that the novel coronavirus has the ability to stay on inanimate surfaces for up to three days, something Dionne Aleman, who is a part of the Institute of Health Policy Management and…

“Denial is part of the human condition,” Dionne Aleman, a mechanical and industrial engineering professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto, said. Her specialties include applying math to health-care information. “Being able to process risk is something humans…