Health committee  It's going to be very difficult to assess in past clinical studies, because too many people did not have the information on what strain they were infected with. However, we do know, based on time periods, the likelihood of your being infected with one type of variant versus the o

Health committee  I'll take the first stab at that, if nobody minds. You're right. We can't estimate the actual percentage. Right now all we have to go by is waste-water surveillance to estimate the rates in the population at this point. I would suspect, from modelling data, that it probably is c

Health committee  I just wanted to ask Ms. Goulding a quick question. Would you mind, if you're interested, send me an email address because we are trying to engage some patient advocacy groups, and I'd really appreciate that.

Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  Oh, geez; you'd think I'd know after a few years of this. What I was saying that was all of the data on the waste-water surveillance, in particular the viral load assessments, is provided to our regional public health units but also to Public Health Ontario and the Public Health

Health committee  It's always confusing. When we talk about seasonal flu, we kind of lump them together because it happens so frequently. If you go back into a person's lifetime and see that they developed early-onset dementia or Parkinson's, they may have had several episodes of flu, so you don't

Health committee  That's another good question. I also am not a medical doctor, but I can give you my opinion based on my knowledge. One of the things we need to ascertain and understand more clearly is whether, if you get infected with different variants...because specifically with omicron it's

Health committee  Of course, we all hope that the surge is not coming in anywhere between five and 10 years. We suspect that with early diagnosis of cognitive impairments already observed.... There are a number of clinical studies that have looked at neurological consequences, particularly through

Health committee  Thanks for having me here today. I'll just give a brief introduction of myself. I'm a Canada research chair in viral pathogenesis and control. I just moved back to Canada—it seems like I just moved back eight years ago—after being at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,