Posts Categorized: COVID-19

There were 4,118 cases in Ontario on Monday, according to the Star’s tally collected from public health units, a number which Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor, CHE affiliate and an expert in pandemic modelling, called “extremely disappointing and…

Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor, CHE affiliate and an expert in pandemic modelling, said it’s hard to know if a lockdown of an extra five days would really change people’s behaviour so close to Christmas. Full article at:…

Toronto is now in the last week of a four-week lockdown, but Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor, CHE affiliate and expert in pandemic modelling, said the province shouldn’t let up, and instead, the rules should become even stricter…

Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor and CHE affiliate and an expert in pandemic modelling, said it’s still too early to see the effects of the restrictions in Toronto and Peel. “It’s been exactly two weeks since these new…

One of Toronto’s top pandemic experts says that Torontonians should avoid all and any travelling in Ontario for the next little while. Dionne M. Aleman, an associate professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto and a mathematician who…

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,” 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…

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…