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Month: August 2020

Almonte hospital workers file grievance to access N95 masks

One of the country’s top arbitrators has been asked to settle a pandemic-related grievance filed by Almonte General Hospital health care workers, who want N95 respirators made available to them.

The hospital now issues N95 masks only to staff involved in aerosol-generating medical procedures, such as intubations.

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COVID-19 et climat : Contrer les mécanismes du déni par un vaccin démocratique

Whether it’s about COVID or the climate, conspiracy theories are the sign of a deep evil: the weakening of democracy.

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New Zealand suspects ‘some failure at the border’ after COVID-19 returns

New Zealand officials and scientists are eying a breach in isolation security as the possible cause of the first cases of community transmission in the country in 102 days. Investigators are exploring several possibilities, but experts believe the alternatives—that the virus was circulating undetected or that it entered the country on a freight shipment—are unlikely.

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