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BC’s pandemic budget may “wind down” in 2024Photo of two masked friends walking in a corridor in an underground public transit station. Photo by Charlotte May / Pexels.
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BC’s pandemic budget may “wind down” in 2024

Published February 6, 2024

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Published by: The Peak
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By Michelle Young

BC’s budget and fiscal report covers a “three year fiscal plan” for housing, sustainability, and healthcare. The report states, “As the funding for pandemic contingencies are set to wind down by the end of 2023/24, it is anticipated that the Ministry of Health will wind down or integrate any services into ministry operations, as appropriate, to support the ongoing health and well-being of British Columbians.”

The report did not elaborate, and The Peak reached out to the Ministry of Health for more information, who said they “will have an update to share following the release of the 2024/25 budget at the end of next month.”

DoNoHarm BC, who advocates for safer COVID-19 protections in the province, is concerned about the effects a potential budget cut could have for residents and provides a series of recommendations.

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Ottawa: Don’t trash the COVID-19 dashboardPhoto of Ottawa City Hall, accompanied by some graphs and the text: Don’t trash the COVID-19 dashboard!
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Ottawa: Don’t trash the COVID-19 dashboard

Published February 1, 2024

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📣 Let Ottawa Public Health, Ottawa’s mayor, and city councillors know you want continued access to the city’s COVID-19 dashboard.

✉️ Send letters to let them know you want continued access to updated data in the COVID-19 dashboard, and elsewhere on the City of Ottawa’s website. You can use your own email software to send the letters.

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California Drastically Cuts Isolation Guidelines For Covid-19

Published January 22, 2024

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Published by: Forbes
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By Judy Stone

Instead of relying on a test of your infectiousness from Covid-19 and symptoms to determine the need to isolate, California now is ignoring the test results.

California’s Department of Health recently made major changes to its isolation requirements, one based on symptoms alone.

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Topic: AlbertaView all posts for the topic: Alberta

An Alberta New Year’s Wish for a Working Public Health System

Published December 29, 2023

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Published by: The Tyee
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By Lisa Young

When approving the advertising campaign, the government’s revisions “included the removal of details about vaccine eligibility, immunization locations by age group and the types of vaccines being offered and their efficacy against different strains of COVID-19 and influenza. Two lines that encouraged Albertans to book vaccination appointments were also deleted.”

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States are trashing troves of masks and pandemic gear as huge, costly stockpiles linger and expire

Published December 20, 2023

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Published by: The Associated Press
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By Jennifer Peltz, David A. Lieb

When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in an unprepared U.S., many states like Ohio scrambled for masks and other protective gear. Supplies were so limited in 2020 that the state bought millions of medical gowns from a marketing and printing company and spent about $20 million to try to get personal protective equipment made in-state.

Three years later, as the grips of the pandemic have loosened, Ohio and other states are now trying to deal with an excess of protective gear, ditching their supplies in droves.

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‘A vicious cycle’: Low Covid-19 vaccination rates lead to fewer doses at pediatric offices. Now, some parents can’t find it

Published December 7, 2023

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Published by: CNN
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By Amanda Musa

As of November 25, less than 3% of children 6 months to 4 years and 10% of children 12 to 17 have received the new shot, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Ottawa Public Health wrapping up COVID-19 operations, cutting pandemic staff

Published December 4, 2023

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Published by: CTV News
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By Josh Pringle

Ottawa Public Health will layoff most of its COVID-19 staff by the end of the year and wrap up its immunization programming at the end of March, as the Ontario government stops reimbursing for extraordinary costs related to the pandemic.

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Ottawa Public Health to let go most remaining COVID-19 staff as province ends special pandemic fundingA healthcare worker is administering a vaccine dose to a patient. The healthcare worker is holding the needle with their right hand. They are wearing black clothes, and there is a green background.
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Ottawa Public Health to let go most remaining COVID-19 staff as province ends special pandemic funding

Published December 3, 2023

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Elizabeth Payne

Ottawa Public Health will let go most of its remaining COVID-19 staff by the end of the year as the province stops directly reimbursing most costs related to the pandemic.

OPH will continue offering vaccines to the most vulnerable, including long-term care residents and recent immigrants, but will wrap up broader COVID-19 efforts by the end of March.

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Anti-vaxxers’ fingerprints are all over Danielle Smith’s plans for public health care

Published November 14, 2023

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Published by: Toronto Star
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By Gillian Steward

It could be dubbed the revenge of the anti-vaxxers. Or the triumph of COVID-19 conspiracy kooks.

Because there’s no question that the Alberta government’s dissection of the province’s public health care system as announced last week shows just how far it is willing to go to punish those who promoted vaccine mandates, mask mandates and any other measures in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.

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We Interrupt This Mood of Denial to Update COVID’s Threat

Published November 10, 2023

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Published by: The Tyee
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By Andrew Nikiforuk

Although many Canadians act as though the pandemic has ended, the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 continues to evolve at an amazing pace with devastating consequences for both individuals and the public at large.

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How lawmakers in Texas and Florida undermine Covid vaccination efforts

Published November 10, 2023

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Published by: CNN
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By Amy Maxmen

Katherine Wells wants to urge her Lubbock, Texas, community to get vaccinated against Covid-19. “That could really save people from severe illness,” said Wells, the city’s public health director.

But she can’t.

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‘Endemic’ SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health

Published November 6, 2023

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Published by: The John Snow Project
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SARS-CoV-2 is now circulating out of control worldwide. The only major limitation on transmission is the immune environment the virus faces. The disease it causes, COVID‑19, is now a risk faced by most people as part of daily life.

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Manitoba’s two major political parties say they would not repeat COVID-19 lockdowns

Published September 20, 2023

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Published by: CTV News / The Canadian Press
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By Steve Lambert

The leaders of Manitoba’s two largest political parties said Wednesday they would not impose the kind of restrictions on people and businesses seen during the…

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The anti-vaccine movement is on the rise. The White House is at a loss over what to do about it.

Published September 20, 2023

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Published by: Politico
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By Adam Cancryn

A Biden administration that vowed to restore Americans’ faith in public health has grown increasingly paralyzed over how to combat the resurgence in vaccine skepticism.

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Hospitals are killing patients because they don’t feel like doing infection control

Published August 23, 2023

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Published by: The Gauntlet
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By Julia Doubleday

“Disabled, sick, immunocompromised and vulnerable people seeking care at a hospital, have the right not to be exposed to a virus that has killed 1.1 million Americans in 3.5 years. They have the right to seek care without having to fear that their care team will quite literally kill them with a preventable illness. Practitioners, on the other hand, have no right to compare the irritation of having to wear a mask at work with the moral injury of infecting vulnerable people who then go on to die at high rates.”

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New Zealand removes final COVID-19 restrictions

Published August 14, 2023

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Published by: Reuters
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By Lucy Craymer

New Zealand’s government will lift all remaining COVID-19 requirements from midnight Tuesday, bringing an end to some of the toughest COVID-19 pandemic rules in the world more than three years after they were put in place.

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