Right in the centre - Are solutions being ignored?
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- Published on Friday, December 10, 2021
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Last week, I asked Dr. Roussin in a press conference about what treatments were being used for treating COVID-19 patients in 水果视频. I asked about at-home, in-hospital and in-ICU treatments. The answer was disappointingly vague. He referred me to 水果视频 Health for an answer.
I also asked about his knowledge of studies about Vitamin D. He was vague again, saying that they review lots of studies and depend on peer reviews by doctors and researchers. He quickly passed over the Vitamin D issues and he wouldn鈥檛 even utter the words 鈥淰itamin D,鈥� covering it with more vagueness by stating that getting the vaccine is the best defence against C-19.
Dr. Roussin suggested I contact 水果视频 Health, so I did. The email bounced back, so I tried another route. That contact didn鈥檛 get back to me for several days. I eventually got an answer back in a couple more days, saying they were working on an answer. Here it is:
鈥淵ou can attribute the following to a Shared Health spokesperson.
Treatment of confirmed COVID-19 can vary according to the specific needs of an individual patient.
Health Canada does provide some information that might be of interest to you on the most common treatments at
With respect to your inquiry related to Vitamin D, please find information from 水果视频 Public Health on their Myths & Facts page.
We continue to encourage all 水果视频ns to get vaccinated, get tested if they have symptoms of COVID-19 and stay home when they are ill. Individuals in need of medical care are encouraged to see their primary care provider, or, if symptoms are severe, to call 911 or go to their closest emergency department.鈥�
I appreciate 水果视频 Health getting back to me. The first website link shown above says the following treatments are approved in Canada鈥� Remdesivir, Bamlanivimab, Casirivimab and imdevimab and Sotrovimab
The Myths and Facts web page suggests that Vitamin D is of no proven value to protect against C-19 and their explanation is illogical, but check it out and decide for yourself. Overall, health dynamics are key to one鈥檚 ability to avoid serious issues with C-19. Vitamin D levels are proven to aid in overall health, so then it stands to reason that Vitamin D, while it may not be a treatment for C-19, most certainly affects one鈥檚 ability to fight diseases, including C-19.
Also, I just got a press release stating that, 鈥淢erck has entered into an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to manufacture Molnupiravir, Merck鈥檚 investigational oral antiviral medicine for the treatment of COVID-19.鈥�
Slowly, very slowly, treatments are being tried and talked about. It鈥檚 only about 15 months too late.
Statistics would seem to show that Dr. Roussin鈥檚 鈥済et the vaccine鈥� answer is valid, but not the whole answer. As long as we ignore the treatments and preventions, we prolong our agony.
Doctors tell me that you can鈥檛 treat C-19, only the symptoms. It seems the actual C-19 treatments are few and far between. They will remain few and far between as long as the health system and media continue to buy into the idea that there are no other solutions except vaccination, dying or recovering. It is quite disturbing that double vaccinated people are getting sick and some are dying.
Last week, a prominent Canadian columnist was waxing eloquent about how C-19 affairs were going in Florida, saying they were doing as well as Ontario. Could there be one glaring difference between Ontario in the winter and Florida in the winter? Florida is a lot warmer, people are outside more, on the beaches even, and are getting a lot more sunshine than Ontario. Funny thing how that might work? Less indoor living and more Vitamin D from the abundant Florida sunshine could well be part of the difference. It amazes me that doctors, even Dr. Roussin, don鈥檛 seem to acknowledge the most common idea that Vitamin D may well be a deterrent to C-19. Even if it isn鈥檛 helpful, it can do no harm.
I just listened to a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell, a famous author and speaker. He points out that three major health conditions lead to C-19 deaths, namely hypertension, diabetes and obesity. He says that if we currently had the much lower levels of those three conditions that we had in 1990, we would not have nearly as large a C-19 death rate as we have in 2020-21. Apparently, we have more hypertension, are fatter and more diabetic than experienced in 1990.
With 152,000 back logged surgery and test cases, we are going to lose a lot more people from the backlog than we ever lost from C-19.
It鈥檚 time to change how we do this pandemic thing.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column are the writer鈥檚 personal views and are not to be taken as being the view of the Banner & Press staff.
