Low-fanfare Games will drive focus to athletes’ feats, says Olympic studies expert
Focus 2
The race to row in Tokyo
Western grads Jen Martins, Jill Moffatt part of Team Canada’s biggest Olympic rowing team in recent history
Expert insights: Reconsider COVID-19 vaccination passports
Researchers encourage public debate about the long-term societal impact of vaccine passports.
Expert insights: Indians stepping up to save lives
Death count soars during the second wave of COVID-19 in India
Expert insights: Pandemic may usher in major social changes
Life expectancy, birth rates and immigration are all significantly impacted
An early warning system: Testing wastewater for COVID-19
Western engineer leads a study collecting wastewater samples from a number of strategic locations in London, Ont. and analyzed at Western’s ImPaKT Facility.
Pandemic reveals strengths and ‘fault lines’ in Canada’s immigration system
Victoria Esses and her collaborators examine Canada’s immigration system prior to the pandemic, and suggest changes for success moving forward.
Expert insights: COVID-19 and mental health – feeling anguish is normal and is not a disorder
Mental health and wellness professor and registered psychotherapist Marnie Wedlake says we should be wary of quick fixes that promise to remedy our human suffering.
Human rights law provides transparent, fair framework for vaccine allocations
Study recommends governments adopt an intersectional approach to understanding how vulnerabilities and disadvantages affect a person’s health.
Dialysis patients four times more likely to die from COVID-19 infection
Patients with chronic kidney disease are particularly vulnerable to contracting and dying from COVID-19, a Western-led study found.
Inconsistent instructions may cause too-shallow nasal swabs: study
There’s a wide variance of provincial recommendations on how deeply the swab should be inserted.
Peers-for-Peers program offers support for physicians
As the pandemic wears on, a unique program at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry builds resiliency with mutual support.
More evidence needed to inform policy on sending kids back to school
The uncertainty about when it’s best to resume schoolkids’ in-person learning could be clarified by conducting randomized trials.
Biomarkers could be used in a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 blood screening tool
A new tool could quickly screen patients for the disease and predict which of them will become most critically ill.