The Vitalité Health Network said on Friday that the population should now wear a mask in the environment of direct patient care at the Centre…
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‘Wave after wave after wave’: Health officials warn high COVID-19 rates could continue
Not enough people are getting vaccinated for COVID-19. That’s according to a Western University professor involved in the Ontario COVID-19 Waste Water Survey Program. “What…
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Medicago : Mitsubishi Chemical redonne 40 M $ et transfère la propriété intellectuelle
The Government of Canada has reached an agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation (MCG), Medicago’s parent company. This company will have to pay $40 million in addition to transferring the intellectual property developed by Medicago to the new Quebec company Aramis Biotechnologies.
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1 in 9 Canadians have had ‘long COVID’: StatCan
About one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection, according to a Statistics Canada report issued Friday.
That amounts to 3.5 million Canadians, it said.
Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said.
In addition, more than half of those who ever had long-term symptoms still had them as of June 2023.
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Keep trying, says NWT as residents wait weeks for flu shots
The NWT government says it’s adding flu shot appointments as fast as it can – but some residents are being told the next opening isn’t until January.
Earlier this week, the territory’s chief public health officer said there had been a significant increase in flu across the NWT but particularly in Yellowknife. Wastewater samples also suggest a steady presence of Covid-19 throughout the fall and into winter.
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1 in 9 Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID infection: StatCan
Statistics Canada says about one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection.
The report released today says that amounts to 3.5 million Canadians.
Symptoms are defined as long-term if they persist for three months or longer after a COVID-19 infection and they can’t be explained by anything else.
Almost 80 per cent of people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more.
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Les maladies post-infection, comme la COVID longue, plus fréquentes qu’on le pense
Early in the pandemic, scientists warned that COVID-19 could cause long-term sequelae even after a mild infection. After all, at least a dozen other known pathogens cause post-infection syndromes. Why didn’t we see this problem coming, and possibly prevent millions of people from developing long COVID?
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B.C. COVID-19 data: Weekly update shows slight increase in hospital population
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. ticked up slightly this week, but remained well below the early-October high.
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported 182 test-positive patients in hospital Thursday, up from 174 at this time last week.
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COVID-19 late in pregnancy linked to severe maternal health problems
A study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases shows women who have COVID-19 infections within a week before giving birth are at an increased risk for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) events, including acute renal failure and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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Opinion: This is a pandemic of attrition
It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course. The COVID-is-mild experiment, despite the wishing and the hoping, has been a tragic failure. We aren’t just accepting ongoing hospitalizations and deaths to protect the economy, but also ignoring the social and economic costs of continuing high levels of acute infections. Worse still are more cases of Long COVID, a condition that takes many people entirely out of the workforce. And with every wave, the staffing attrition worsens.
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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
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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More than a year after her daughter’s death at Yorkton hospital, Regina mother still looking for answers
It’s been more than a year since Gwen Gilbert first raised questions about her daughter’s death at the hospital in Yorkton, Sask.
Teary-eyed, Gilbert echoed the same questions at the Saskatchewan Legislature on Wednesday.
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Low rates of COVID vaccination putting the elderly at risk: medical officer of health
Nearly half of people over 80 in Ottawa have not received the latest COVID-19 vaccine, leaving them at risk for severe outcomes if they become infected, Ottawa’s medical officer of health is warning.
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COVID, flu vaccine uptake low in Alberta heading into holiday season
With vaccination numbers lagging and the holiday season approaching, health experts are calling on Albertans to roll up their sleeves for their flu and COVID-19 shots.
As of Nov. 25, 17 people in Alberta had died of the flu during this respiratory virus season, and close to 500 were hospitalized, according to provincial data. In the same time frame, 245 deaths and almost 2,300 hospitalizations were tied to COVID-19.
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Now is not the time to end Covid-related services in BC
After 2023, funding for Covid-related services is set to end in BC.
For nearly four years now, British Columbians have been grappling with Covid-19. We’re currently aided by health management initiatives like vaccination, testing, and protective equipment for healthcare workers. Since 2021, these measures have been funded by BC’s Pandemic Recovery Contingencies, a three-year plan that also sustains economic recovery programs and supports for vulnerable community members.
This plan expires at the end of 2023. After that, our government anticipates that “most initiatives will wind down or be integrated into existing government programs.”
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Randy Hillier’s Charter case against charges from COVID-19 lockdown protests in Cornwall, Kemptville dismissed
A judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has dismissed former MPP Randy Hillier’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms challenge against Reopening Ontario Act charges laid against him in the spring of 2021.
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How to stay informed on COVID-19
BC public health has made it too confusing to keep up on COVID-19 information. With the government changing information about COVID-19 data and obscuring data collection, knowingly downplaying risks about transmission, and overall unclear messaging, it’s no wonder people are misinformed.
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