The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Ontario is looking at possibly delaying second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to nearly four months after a person receives their first shot.

ALSO: Almost since the pandemic began, scientists have been using high-level mathematics and powerful computers to churn out models of how the virus might spread and affect Canadian society, and what mitigation measures would do to slow it down. But a year into the pandemic, skeptics worry that the battle against COVID-19 has relied too heavily on mathematical projections that can be undermined by sparse data and an unpredictable virus — and are often released with scant mention of their limitations.

GUEST: Dr. Prabhat Jha, Epidemiologist and Professor of Global Health with the University of Toronto, Founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital

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Several provinces began expanding their COVID-19 vaccination programs to members of the general population on Monday, as new recommendations on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine suggested it should be targeted at younger Canadians and not seniors.

GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Co-Founder of Doctors For Justice in Long Term Care and Palliative Care Physician

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If a term (and its attendant behaviour) can go from obscurity to ubiquity in less than a year, what are the chances that, when the pandemic goes away, we all go back to the way things were, including the sidewalk two-step? Steve Joordans, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, thinks it’s very likely. He even has a name for it: The great snap-back.

GUEST: Steve Joordens, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

The Waiting Room Revolution—and unlocks the secrets to a better illness experience. It targets patients and families who are facing serious illness—and tells them “what they need to know, but didn’t know to ask.” Especially now with COVID, patients and families are being asked to do more – and don’t always have the right information to take charge. We offer the tips that anyone can use, immediately, any point in their trajectory. Hosted by Dr. Hsien Seow, health care researcher, and Dr. Samantha Winemaker, palliative care physician. Both doctors have worked their careers helping those who are facing serious illness. They often heard patients and families say they felt unprepared and overwhelmed.

GUEST: Dr. Hsien Seow, Health Care Researcher

With little to do in the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s households have run up an all-time record high cash pile, about $100 billion more in savings than they otherwise would have had, economists at CIBC say.

Of course, not everyone has shared equally in this new cash bonanza, and ― as seems to be the case with everything in this pandemic ― the wealthier you are, the better you likely made off.

For those service-sector workers and small businesses who’ve been hit hardest by the pandemic, that giant cash hoard among higher earners holds a silver lining: When the pandemic ends, a good chunk of that money will go straight back into those parts of the economy that got hit hardest in the first place, CIBC predicts.

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

Ontario’s long-term care minister was aware of the dangers the novel coronavirus posed to the sector long before it was declared a global pandemic, a newly released transcript from the province’s commission on the matter reveals.

ALSO: Doctors For Justice For LTC Town Hall is Tuesday with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh

GUEST:  Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos, Co-Founder of Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care, Professor at Ontario Tech University