Blake Murdoch Journalist Profile

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Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids. They Need Help.

Oct 18, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Blake Murdoch

Since the COVID pandemic began, claims that the disease poses only minimal risk to children have spread widely, on the presumption that the lower rate of severe acute illness in kids tells the whole story. Notions that children are nearly immune to COVID and don’t need to be vaccinated have pervaded. These ideas are wrong.
Canadians deserve potentially life-saving early warning health-care AI

Oct 14, 2024 | healthydebate.ca | Maddi Dellplain |Blake Murdoch

As an academic who writes about the ethical and legal issues with Artificial Intelligence (AI), I admit to being concerned that it will be applied largely to the detriment of socioeconomic stability and society. Commercialization of AI threatens to disempower and disenfranchise the labour force, further concentrate wealth and power, and destabilize democracy by making it nearly impossible for folks to distinguish what’s real from what’s fake. But it’s not all bad news.
Opinion: Canada’s broken social safety net pushes people toward assisted dying

Apr 22, 2024 | theglobeandmail.com | Blake Murdoch
Opinion: It's time to clean the germs out of our indoor air

Apr 4, 2024 | edmontonjournal.com | Blake Murdoch

Opinion: It's time to clean the germs out of our indoor airThis handout file illustration image obtained Feb. 27, 2020 courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows the coronavirus, COVID-19. Photo by Supplied /Centers for Disease Control andArticle contentOn Feb. 11, 2020, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus openly stated that the new coronavirus was airborne.
Definitional and Methodological Errors in Pediatric Post-COVID-19 Condition Research Letter

Mar 4, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Blake Murdoch |Malgorzata Gasperowicz |Mark Ungrin |Lyndsey M. Hahn

Definitional and Methodological Errors in Pediatric Post–COVID-19 Condition Research Letter Post–COVID-19 Condition in Children Lyndsey M. Hahn, PhD; Emilie Manny, PhD; Fabiana Mamede, PhD; Gurvinder Dhaliwal, BSc; Joyce Chikuma, MSc; Joan L. Robinson, MD; Piush J. Mandhane, MD, PhD Definitional and Methodological Errors in Pediatric Post–COVID-19 Condition Research Letter—Reply Lyndsey Hahn, PhD; Joan Robinson, MD; Piush J.
Communicating About Precision Transplantation Tools

Feb 7, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Blake Murdoch |Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze |Timothy Caulfield

IntroductionPrecision medicine tools can help prevent antibody mediated rejection by ensuring molecular compatibility at the time of kidney allocation.
Demographic and psychometric predictors associated with engagement in risk-associated alternative healthcare behaviours

Sep 21, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Bernie Garrett |Timothy Caulfield |Richard Musoke |Blake Murdoch

Citation: Garrett B, Caulfield T, Musoke R, Murdoch B, Tang X, Lam JST (2023) Demographic and psychometric predictors associated with engagement in risk-associated alternative healthcare behaviours. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0291016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291016Editor: Jerome Nyhalah Dinga, University of Buea, CAMEROONReceived: March 28, 2023; Accepted: August 20, 2023; Published: September 21, 2023Copyright: © 2023 Garrett et al.
RETRACTED: Post-COVID-19 Condition in Children

Sep 19, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Emilie Manny |Joyce Chikuma |Joan Robinson |Blake Murdoch

Understanding of post–COVID-19 condition (PCC, or long COVID) in children remains limited, as studies vary in defining PCC and including limited prospective data before SARS-CoV-2 infection.1-3 The World Health Organization (WHO) defines PCC as “continuation or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with symptoms lasting for at least 2 months with no other explanation.”4 Symptoms must affect everyday functioning.
COVID-19 lockdown revisionism

Apr 17, 2023 | cmaj.ca | Blake Murdoch |Timothy Caulfield

The term “lockdown” has become a powerful and perverted word in the infodemic about democracies’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdown, as used in public discourse, has expanded to include any public health measure, even if it places little to no restriction on social mobility or interaction.