Ontario is reporting 480 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, a slight dip from counts seen the last three days that went above 500. The provincial case total now stands at 603,711. For comparison, last Monday saw 422 new cases and the previous Monday saw 326. All three Monday’s saw comparable testing volumes in the […]
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Ontario is reporting 636 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the provincial case total to 603,231. Of the 636 new cases recorded, the data showed 325 were unvaccinated people, 15 were partially vaccinated people, 248 were fully vaccinated people and for 48 people the vaccination status was unknown. According to Sunday’s report, 60 cases […]
Britain will start to roll out Merck’s molnupiravir COVID-19 antiviral pill through a drug trial later this month, Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at the UK Health Security Agency said on Sunday. Last week Britain became the first country in the world to approve the potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill, jointly developed by U.S.-based […]
The Biden administration is “prepared to defend” sweeping new coronavirus vaccine rules for large companies amid new legal challenges, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, said on Sunday. The administration last week set Jan. 4 as the deadline for companies with 100 or more employees to mandate Covid vaccinations or implement weekly testing of workers. […]
“Losing all those people was never far from his mind,” said his brother, who is his only immediate survivor. “And it tied deeply into his personal life. He lost his lover, who was his soul mate.” His partner’s death stirred something in him. “When he finally saw those who survived, he saw they weren’t surviving […]
He entered the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1950, planing to be a general practitioner and join his father’s practice. But he became fascinated by neurology and neurosurgery and then by psychiatry, inspired by a professor, Wilhelm Mayer-Gross, a prominent psychiatrist who had fled Nazi Germany. Dr. Rutter worked at various British hospitals after […]
Did you wake up this morning feeling a bit confused or disoriented about what time it was? You’re not alone. Clocks were set an hour back at 2 a.m. in most time zones across Canada as the switch from daylight saving time (DST) — also known as summer time or daylight time — to […]
The United Kingdom on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve an orally ingested COVID-19 antiviral pill, developed by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. On Friday, COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer unveiled promising results on their experimental pill, claiming that it could cut rates of hospitalization and death from the virus by nearly […]
“It’s the ultimate safe space,” said Naz Perez, founder of the support group Heart Broken Anonymous, which has been running meetings virtually during the pandemic. “Maybe you have nobody in your life, maybe your friends are sick of hearing about it. What’s safer than being at home in your pajamas, with your camera off, talking […]
While Aaron Osterback was hospitalized with Covid-19 and pneumonia in September, he leaned on the foods he grew up with, like salmon and cod, to help him recover. Mr. Osterback is Aleut and was raised near the Bering Sea in Sand Point, Alaska — home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the Aleutian […]