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Continuing with everyday life, while taking new precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic is our ‘new normal’. Social distancing, facemasks and working from home are all terms we need to grow accustomed to and while the daily cases have decreased and…
Zheda Mai (MASc Student), Jihwan Jeong (PhD Candidate), CHE Affiliate Prof. Scott Sanner and team member Hyunwoo Kim (LG Sciencepark) won first prize in all categories in the CLVision Challenge held at the 2020 virtual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition…
“Going from no schools to some form of schools provides a whole new environment for COVID-19 to spread, even if it spreads more slowly among kids, which means that there will be an inevitable uptick in cases,” said Dionne Aleman,…
“Going from no schools to some form of schools provides a whole new environment for COVID-19 to spread, even if it spreads more slowly among kids, which means that there will be an inevitable uptick in cases,” said Dionne Aleman,…
While the city’s numbers are better than what they were a month ago, “every stage of reopening should be approached with caution,” said Dionne Aleman, a University of Toronto professor and expert in pandemic modelling. Full article at: Toronto Star (June…
University of Toronto professor and CHE affiliate Dr. Dionne Aleman stated that “Younger people should not be comforted by statistics that show they are less likely to end up in hospital or die because of COVID-19. It is like rolling…
“This is exactly what I’ve been hoping the province would do from day one,” said Dionne Aleman, a professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto and an expert in pandemic modelling. Full article at: Toronto Star (June 18: Cambridge Times,…
“There is massive room for improvement in how Ontario collects and reports data,” said Dionne Aleman, a professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto who models infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. Full article at: Toronto…
One of the main problems, the Star found, is that the province’s integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) was — and still does — seriously under-report provincewide deaths due to COVID-19, particularly in seniors’ homes. “There is massive room for…
(Will reopening lead to second wave of cases?) Dionne Aleman is a professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliateat the University of Toronto. Her research involves developing pandemic models to simulate infectious disease outbreaks in urban environments, first during the…
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