No further details were provided about the source of the potential exposure. “As COVID-19 and the more transmissible Delta variant continue to circulate in the community, residents are urged to start their COVID-19 vaccine series or to get their second dose, if they haven’t done it yet,...
Restrictions will remain in place as more people get vaccinated. Right now, cases are still high andvaccine coverage is low. It's recommended that everyone stay at home, get vaccinated and urge everyone in their community to do the same. Canada's public health agency has released a blueprint...
Still, many — including far-right anti-vaccine groups — continue to protest the ongoing health measures even as their expiration nears. Toronto was hit with a wave of protests over the weekend, the latest in a series of demonstrations thathave been occurringsince the first public health restri...
Toronto Public Health says a patron at a strip club has tested positive for COVID-19, following an earlier announcement that an employee there had the coronavirus. The agency said it has attempted to contact all of the approximately 550 people who may have come into contact with the Brass Ra...
Public health lessons from one pandemic become the planning assumptions for the next one. Aotearoa New Zealand's 2017 pandemic plan was derived from past experience of influenza. When Covid-19 emerged as a major global health threat, it ... A Kvalsvig,MG Baker - Journal- Royal Society of...
COVID-19 has forced healthcare professionals to adopt remote healthcare and an appetite for innovation, as scientists and researchers worldwide scrambled to find a vaccine and other solutions to COVID-19. While Ontario’s COVID-19 response has been scrutinized for its confusing vaccine registration...
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has now turned his attention to the global incidence of Covid-19 and its persistence among the poorer nations. He looks forward to a vaccine that can be delivered as a pill and developed in his native South Africa for distribution to other African countries. He is ...
Infectious diseases at TGH; member of Ontario’s Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force Thrust into the spotlight during the pandemic, the leading epidemiologist has become a go-to pundit, advocating for rapid testing in schools and a data-based approach to reopening. ...
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has now turned his attention to the global incidence of Covid-19 and its persistence among the poorer nations. He looks forward to a vaccine that can be delivered as a pill and developed in his native South Africa for distribution to other African countries. He is ...
Vaccines are Overwhelmingly Safe, But What Happens with a Vaccine Injury? The chances of being seriously injured by a COVID-19 vaccine are astronomically rare, less than one in a million, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). And yet, with tens of millions of doses ex...