Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, reported 1,586 patients in hospital with COVID-19, including 126 in intensive care. Hinshaw said starting next Wednesday, fully immunized workers in continuing care facilities will be allowed to work at multiple sites, ending ...
Nine universities and colleges in Alberta say they are ramping up COVID-19 measures by making vaccination a requirement to enter their campuses. University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge and Medicine Hat College are among the institutions that will require ...
The Government of Alberta is resuming COVID-19 public reporting in schools. The government announced Tuesday that contact notification in schools, clarifying COVID-19 outbreak definitions, providing rapid testing kits and encouraging school authorities to have proof of COVID-19 vaccination policies for...
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19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, which mainly affects the respiratory system2. The fatality rate of COVID-19 varies substantially across different locations, which may reflect differences in population age, comorbidities, vaccination status, and other factors4. In June 2022, there were more...
Association between immune dysfunction and COVID-19 breakthrough infection after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in the US. JAMA Intern Med. 2022;182(2):153-162. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.7024ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 13. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 vaccines ...
Alberta municipal leaders oppose bill overruling local mask laws Legislation preventing cities from creating their own mask mandates without the provincial government’s permission is the “exact opposite” of collaboration, says the president of Alberta Municipalities.Read more… ...
“Fraudulent vaccination records are being removed from the provincial immunization registry and B.C. vaccine cards are being revoked,” it said. —The Canadian Press
Andy Knight, the University of Alberta political scientist who is leading the latter endeavor, funded by the Worldwide Universities Network’s (WUN) Research Development Fund, stressed in a recentinterviewthat vaccination should not be treated as “a nationalistic issue,” asserting...
The two milestones are emblematic of where the nation stands with COVID-19, ramping up its vaccination drive as more contagious variants of the virus fuel the pandemic’s third wave. Alberta, for instance, is investigating what the province’s chief medical officer of health described as a “...