Posts Categorized: COVID-19

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…

Pandemic modelling expert and CHE affiliate Dionne Aleman breaks down why Ontarians continue to see a rise in COVID-19 cases despite the province falling behind on daily testing. Watch video at: Global News (October 26: MSN News, Yahoo! News)

Pandemic modelling expert and CHE affiliate, Dionne Aleman, breaks down why Ontarians continue to see a rise in COVID-19 cases despite the province falling behind on daily testing. Full article at: Global News (October 26: Boom 101.9, CFOX, Magic 106.1)

Pandemic modelling expert and CHE affiliate, Dionne Aleman breaks down why Ontarians continue to see a rise in COVID-19 cases despite the province falling behind on daily testing. Full article: Global News

“Any limitation on our ability to test the population will impact our knowledge of what’s happening with disease spread, and therefore our ability to control it in a targeted fashion,” said Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor, CHE affiliate…

Libby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Susy Hota, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the University Health Network, Dr. Ray Deonandan, Epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, and Dr.…

But Dionne Aleman, an industrial engineering professor at the University of Toronto and an expert in contact tracing, was critical of the provincial government. “This is a failing of our provincial leadership and funding priorities, not a failing of our…

Dionne Aleman, associate professor of industrial engineering, CHE affiliate and pandemic growth expert at the University of Toronto, recommends Canadians skip holiday dinners altogether this year. “B.C., Ontario, Quebec. We’re all in a very severe second wave. Certainly looking like…

“If you can understand where everybody became infected, that’s a tremendously valuable piece of information that can help stop the spread of disease,” said Dionne Aleman, associate professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto and…