Public health nurse Debbie Abbott holds a bottle of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health in Belleville, Ont. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. Ontario students must either receive vaccinations or complete paperwork opting out of t...
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...
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...
“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,” a TPH statement released Thursday says. “Residents of Toronto are reminded...
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Trevor A. Hart BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada James Wilton Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada Ahmed M. Bayoumi Contributions ...
s PC Health app, a venture that arrived just in time to do what not long ago felt near impossible: help Canadians book vaccine appointments. For Loblaw (who bought Shoppers in 2014), it’s part of a larger play to dominate the digital health care field. For serial start-upper Serbinis...
Concomitant Utilization of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Meningococcal Vaccine (MenACWY) Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in ... Data collected from a community-based sample of HIV-negative GBMSM in Los Angeles County (N=476) were used in a multinomial logit ...
Notably, while the HPV vaccine is recommended up to the age of 45 for everyone in the United States, the indications in Canada are only up to the age of 26 for men16. Nonetheless, Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) still recommends that HPV vaccine be strongly ...
Based on our analysis, we could estimate what the effect on hospital admissions would be if all the pollution currently observed in Toronto air were to disappear. Toronto Public Health claims about 6,000 fewer hospitalizations would occur. But this claim gets no support in the data. We ...
Pertussis continues to challenge medical professionals; recently described increases in incidence may be due to age-cohort effects, vaccine effectiveness, or changes in testing patterns. Toronto, Canada has recently experienced increases in pertussis incidence, and provides an ideal jurisdiction for ...