COVID19 The Answers – Details, episodes & analysis

Professor Alex MacKenzie MD, PhD, Dr Tyson Graber PhD, and Professor Robert Delatolla PhD talk about their research and work in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the Wastewater of the citizens of Ontario, Canada.

“SARS-CoV-2 Protein in Wastewater Mirrors COVID-19 Prevalence” - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.20185280v1

“How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak” - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00973-x/

“Quantitative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from wastewater solids in communities with low COVID-19 incidence and prevalence” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135420310952

“How Wastewater Treatment Works - The Basics - https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/bastre.pdf

“How Do Wastewater Treatment Plants Work?” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvPakzqM3h8

Ottawa Public Health Wastewater Surveillance - https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/reports-research-and-statistics/Wastewater_COVID-19_Surveillance.aspx

CHEO Research Institute - https://www.cheoresearch.ca/about-us/media/news/our-researchers-discuss-tracking-covid-19-in-wastewater-with-the-media/

“The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world” - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01234-1

“How sewage can warn us about the next pandemic” - https://www.vox.com/23005271/sewage-wastewater-surveillance-covid-19-biobot-analytics-pandemic

COVIDPoops19 Dashboard - https://www.covid19wbec.org/covidpoops19

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Ms Galya Westler is interviewed about how Information Technology in the form of Blockchain Technology, namely Self Sovereign Identity, can be used to Combat pandemics and enable the secure transfer of our private medical information in healthcare.

“Blockchain applications in health care for COVID-19 and beyond: a systematic review” - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34654686/

“Blockchain Identity Management: The Definitive Guide (2021 Update)” - https://tykn.tech/identity-management-blockchain/

“How Is Blockchain Efficiently Used in Digital Identity Management?” - https://cisomag.eccouncil.org/how-does-blockchain-help-with-digital-identity/

“Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, And The Future Of Data Privacy”- FORBES Magazine - https://www.forbes.com/sites/seansteinsmith/2020/09/09/blockchain-self-sovereign-identity-and-the-future-of-data-privacy/?sh=77d66a6cea7d

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Dr Evan Adams MD - Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Indigenous Services Canada talks about the experiences of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis people of Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID vaccination of these communities.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Kojala Medical presents COVID 19 The Answers. The show that delivers the scientific evidence-based knowledge that can safely return us all to our pre-COVID lives. My name is Dr. Funmi Okunola and I'll be hosting the show. Every week you can listen to me interview a highly respected professional about the science that can reduce your risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus.

Welcome to episode 6 of COVID 19: The Answers, titled 'The vaccination of the Indigenous People of Canada and the effects of COVID 19 on the Indigenous People of Canada I'd like to introduce you all to Dr Evan Adams, Dr Adams is from the Tla'amin First Nation near Powell river in British Columbia Canada. Dr Adams completed his doctor of medicine degree at the University of Calgary and his aboriginal family practice residency at Saint Paul's hospital UBC in Vancouver Canada as chief resident. He then went on to acquire a Masters of Public Health degree from John Hopkins University in Baltimore in the USA. He was the first ever aboriginal health physician advisor in the office of the Provincial Health Officer and became the deputy Provincial Health Officer in the province of British Columbia Canada in 2014 he became the first Chief Medical Officer for the newly formed First Nations Health Authority in BC. 

Dr Adams is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Indigenous Services Canada Dr Adams is a multi-award-winning actor, most famously starring as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in the movie, 'Smoke Signals' and has over 30 years experience as a motivational speaker. Dr Evan Adams is one of the most famous, honored and much-loved persons amongst the Indigenous People of Canada. Welcome! Ah thank you, what a very generous introduction. Oh it's very true.

I've spoken to many Indigenous People and I hear nothing but high praise. Ah, that's a that's a nice feeling, thank you. So, I've been dying to ask, how a medical physician came to be a famous actor and did you have to choose between the two professions? Yeah, it actually happened the other way around. I was uh, you know, I was a fairly good student and and as a you know as a high school student was told 'oh we we so need you to get an education and return home and help with all of those all of those issues' and I think as a as a young person, that's pretty daunting and so when I was in University I was studying Biochemistry in my second year, a woman came up to me on the street and she said are you an actor and I just lied. Why did I say yes?

She said come and read for me tomorrow and I did, and I was cast in the second lead in a, in a film and it was actually quite wonderful. I thought oh this is really fun, it's much better than the drudgery and the burden of training and going home and serving. It's just really light fun, but of

Global Vaccine Equity is Discussed with Mr David Morley, President and CEO of UNICEF. We talk about WHO's strategy to achieve Worldwide Global COVID Vaccination and UNICEF's role in that strategy working with COVAX.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/Ys1UY3iFvHM

Learn more at: https://kojalamedical.com/covid19theanswers/

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/immunization/covid-19/strategy-to-achieve-global-covid-19-vaccination-by-mid-2022.pdf?sfvrsn=5a68433c_5

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(22)00328-2.pdf

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merck-ceo-ken-frazier-speaks-about-a-covid-cure-racism-and-why-leaders-need-to-walk-the-talk

https://www.unicef.ca/

https://www.unicef.org/

Discussing The Effect of the Pandemic on Children with the President and CEO of UNICEF Canada - Mr David Morley. This week on the show, we talk about the scale of global child suffering caused by COVID-19. UNICEF has declared COVID-19 to be the worst crisis for children in the organization's 75-year history and has called for immediate action. Today's interview will focus on some of the major crises that UNICEF has identified as directly affecting children around the world, namely Poverty, Education, Mortality, Immunization, Nutrition, and Abuse. We also discuss the impact of the Omicron variant on children and Long Covid in children.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/noE5eGjERgA

Learn more at: https://kojalamedical.com/covid19theanswers/

https://www.unicef.ca/

https://www.unicef.org/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00005-0/fulltext

https://www.unicef.org/reports/unicef-75-preventing-a-lost-decade

https://tnc.news/2021/11/25/60-of-canadian-parents-worried-they-wont-be-able-to-feed-their-families/

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html#a5

Professor Melissa Stockwell, MD, examines the shocking and devastating consequences of COVID-19 in unvaccinated children, especially in light of the latest Omicron Variant outbreak. We address the efficacy and safety of COVID vaccines in children, as well as recent studies examining the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 during the Omicron wave.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/CWx3QM5_8Hg

Learn more at: https://kojalamedical.com/covid19theanswers/

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/1362

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.25.22271454v1

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7109e3.htm?s_cid=mm7109e3_x

An interview about COVID Vaccines and Vaccination with Dr Craig Laferriere PhD. We discuss the overall impact of vaccination in terms of global death and disease reduction. We then concentrate on the various types of vaccines and relate them to the COVID Vaccines that are currently being administered.The research process, manufacturing, and safety of COVID vaccines are all explored. We investigate vaccine hesitancy in relation to COVID vaccination.

Watch: https://youtu.be/9ZmRqIR3ohc

Listen: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/2657e1e6-814f-4e3d-b2c7-92b0e3f549b0

Learn More: https://kojalamedical.com/covid19theanswers/

 https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/vaccines-and-immunization-what-is-vaccination

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.00937/full

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/3/418

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XNvpYhmoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0CeqJIBUDY

https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/15/i-trust-my-drug-dealer-more-than-i-trust-this-vaccine/

We begin with Dr. Jason Maley, who explains what Long COVID is and the processes that may be involved.

Dr. Maley discusses his and his team's clinical experiences of providing care to Long COVID sufferers, we also touch on the US national Recover research project that he is involved with.

Professor Amitava Banerjee is our second guest, he talks about the UK STIMULATE-ICP Long COVID research project we discuss the importance of illness prevention and his study findings on the organ damage linked with LONG COVID, as well as the research he is conducting looking into potential treatments.

[01:29] - Dr Jason Maley

[59:55] - Professor Amitava Banerjee

https://recovercovid.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/12/long-covid-trial-britain-short-term-virus

https://www.stimulate-icp.org/

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n693

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/3/e048391

Dr Daniel Griffin MD, PhD - gives an introduction to COVID-19. Dr Griffin is both a Specialist Physician in Infectious Disease and a Research Scientist. Since the very beginning of the pandemic he has been actively involved in the clinical care of COVID-19 patients at every stage - from the community outpatient clinic to the Intensive Care Unit.

Each stage and phase of the COVID-19 disease is explained using his research paper "The Importance of Understanding COVID-19 in Treatment & Trials" – published in Aids Reviews - as a reference, so you will have a good understanding of how the disease manifests itself in your body, how your immune system responds to a SARS-CoV-2 infection, and what treatments should be used at each stage of the disease. We touch briefly on the long term damage done to our bodies by COVID-19.

We also discuss Superspreaders and Superspreader events

https://europepmc.org/article/med/33556957

Dr Daniel Griffin MD, PhD - gives an introductory comprehensive talk about the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Dr Daniel Griffin is a Physician-Scientist and Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at ProHEALTH New York, and a clinical instructor of Medicine at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center. He is President of Parasites Without Borders, a co-host of This Week in Virology (TWIV) and active in the clinical care of patients living in the New York area and has been particularly involved in the care of patients suffering from COVID-19 since the very beginning of the pandemic.

Viruses and coronaviruses are defined, we talk about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, discuss what a pandemic is and why we are in a pandemic, the transmission and contagiousness of this coronavirus, the variants of concern with a focus on Omicron and a look to the future.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

https://parasiteswithoutborders.com/