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Month: September 2023

Santé Canada approuve la mise à jour du vaccin de Moderna contre la COVID-19

Health Canada announced on Tuesday that it is authorizing the use of an updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for all Canadians over the age of six months, at a time when federal public health has recommended that Canadians roll up their sleeves and return for vaccination.

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The government is absent from keeping students safe from COVID-19

COVID-19 is still here, and classrooms still represent a place where infection can spread, but there are other ways to learn and engage with students.

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Drug overdoses, COVID‑19 drive Sask. life expectancy to lowest level in 22 years

Experts attribute the drop to deaths among younger people from drug overdoses and suicide, as well COVID-19 deaths of all ages.

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A spike in N.B. heart and stroke deaths in 2021 cited as COVID’s handiwork

New figures show there was a surge in deaths from heart failure, lung disease and strokes in New Brunswick in 2021, as deaths from COVID-19 were also multiplying.

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Long COVID: The hunt for causes and cures

Hannah Davis misses her old self. Like so many people around the world, she has seen her life upended by long COVID, which has made many once-routine activities impossible. The 32-year-old has stopped working at her job in the field of machine learning and generative models. It’s too cognitively taxing; the lights from display monitors are disorienting. Merely standing up from a sitting position causes her heart rate to shoot to 170 beats per minute, the equivalent of doing a good jog.

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Restrictions likely helped curb spread of COVID-19 in N.S., Dalhousie researchers find

A new report from six Dalhousie University researchers has found government restrictions that limited movement during the first two years of the pandemic likely helped curb the spread of COVID-19.

It also found infection, hospitalizations and deaths increased when restrictions eased and the highly infectious Omicron variant arrived.

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BA.2.86 with two additional mutations is responsible for U.K. care home outbreak and it had an 86% attack rate! How could this impact the latest boosters?

The concern is that the new mutations gave it an advantage to become much more infectious and that persisting in people instead of hospitalizing them is exactly what the virus wants. Persisting in people gives it an advantage, but it causes many long-term problems, reducing the quality of life and ultimately shortening lifespans.

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COVID-19 cases spike in B.C. but no more cases of new variant detected

British Columbia is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 numbers, with cases, test positivity, hospitalizations and deaths all up in recent weeks.

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Le nombre de cas de COVID-19 dans les hôpitaux a triplé en un mois au Québec

The number of people infected with COVID-19 staying in Quebec hospitals has tripled in the past month, Health Minister Christian Dubé reported on Friday morning.

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What Canadians need to know about COVID rapid tests as fall approaches

With the impending fall flu season and the continued circulation of new COVID-19 variants across the country, attention is once again turning to rapid antigen tests.

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COVID patients exhale up to 1,000 copies of virus per minute during first eight days of symptoms

COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

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Brace for an increase in COVID-19 cases this fall: Dubé

The number of COVID-19 cases has tripled in three weeks and could rise to as many as 2,000 to 3,000 per day in the fall, Health Minister Christian Dubé said Friday, reminding Quebecers that vaccination is still their best option.

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Number with COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals has tripled since early August

The number of COVID-positive patients in B.C. hospitals has more than tripled in the last month, according to the latest data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

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B.C. hospital sees fast spread of COVID-19, but no outbreak declared due to ‘negative connotations’

Health-care workers at a hospital on Vancouver Island are sounding the alarm about the fast spread of COVID-19 at the facility in the last few weeks, after public health officials said they would not declare it an outbreak because of “negative connotations.”

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