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What to do if someone is sick?

Public Health Agency of Canada: COVID-19: What to do if you or someone in your home is sick

CleanAirCrew: Someone in my home has COVID. How do we isolate safely?

What to do if you get COVID — article by Arijit Chakravarty and T. Ryan Gregory.

Healthy Heating: How to set up an emergency isolation room inside a home or apartment for a suspected infected occupant — article by Robert Bean,
ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer.

It’s airborne: Your guide to stopping COVID in your home

NBC News: What to do if a family member tests positive? How to ‘Covid-proof’ your home

Medical Xpress: New study suggests gargling with salt water may be associated with lower COVID hospitalization — According to a new study, if you gargle with salt water, you can reduce your risk of ending up in a hospital.


Information about Paxlovid

The Ottawa Hospital: COVID-19 treatment information for providers and prescribers


Information about metformin

CIDRAP: Common diabetes drug shown to prevent long COVID — A 14-day course of the drug metformin may help prevent long COVID, according to a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The Lancet: Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial — According to a new study published in The Lancet, “Outpatient treatment with metformin reduced long COVID incidence by about 41%.”

medRxiv: Metformin reduces SARS-CoV-2 in a Phase 3 Randomized Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial