Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw gives an update on COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Photo by Chris Schwarz /Government of Alberta Article content Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw...
Alberta municipalities will need province’s OK for face mask, vaccine passports Alberta’s UCP government introduced amendments to the Municipal Government Act Tuesday, limiting local governments’ ability to have face-covering or vaccine passport bylaws outside of the province’s rules.Read more… M...
Alberta's chief medical officer confirmed hundreds of cases have been linked to a meat-packing plant in High River, accounting for 15 per cent of the province's total, according to CBC News. The plant run by Cargill is one of the two main beef supplier...
In Alberta, too, where the government has been hesitant to introduce wide-ranging lockdowns because of the economic consequences, several dozen physicians wrote to Premier Jason Kenney, seeking a temporary shutdown to bring case counts under control. Noel Gibney, a...
Evidence from a study in Alberta, Canada suggested that variations in test sensitivity for the virus causing COVID-19, particularly earlier in a pandemic, can result in “an undercounting of cases by nearly a factor of two” (p. 398) [53]. With rapid tests and home-approved testing kits...
Alberta has declared a state of public health emergency and will implement new, temporary health measures to expand capacity, increase vaccination rates and reduce transmission of COVID-19. These new measures, which take effect September 16, are required due to the province’s rising number of ca...
Guest post by Neil Lock As those acquainted with me will know, long ago I was trained as a mathematician. I’ve forgotten most of the specifics I learned. But I’ve retained the framework; even if it’s a bit rusty. For almost three months now, I’ve bee
In addition, the public perception, knowledge, and attitude towards infectious diseases, e.g., COVID-19, is often comparable among men and women of these countries (Anwar et al., 2020c; Alberta Health Services COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group, 2020). What this means is that the ...
Canadian province of Alberta, Switzerland and Germany, respectively (see Klenert et al.2018a; Knopf2019). Second, in countries with large informal sectors, there are ways to compensate citizens, given enough time for preparation, as demonstrated by the case of fossil fuel subsidy removal in ...
We are still situated at the same institutions: ‘a post-1992 university in central London (UK)—with a diverse student and staff body—and a North American university (Calgary, Alberta)—with five campuses and over 33,000 students’ (although Sandra A. now also teaches remotely in the UK...