Ontario is pausing COVID-19 vaccinations of long-term care staff and essential caregivers so that it can focus on administering the shots to all nursing home residents amid a shortage of doses.
The province announced the change of focus for its vaccination plan on Monday as it deals with delays in...
Dr. Natalie Archer knows that getting herself and her employees vaccinated against COVID-19 won’t solve everything.
But as a dentist who serves more than 7,000 clients across three clinics in Toronto, Archer knows how important it is to do so, and soon.
“Medical appointments are considered essential. To me, that stresses...
Researchers at UC San Diego are experimenting with new wearable test strips that change color if they detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a person’s breath or saliva.
The strips can be affixed to any mask and are designed to detect “protein-cleaving molecules” produced from an infection of the virus, the...
Pfizer on Friday committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get affordable shots to poor and middle-income countries.
The deal is a boost to the global program known as COVAX, as wealthy nations have snapped up...
The B.C. government has changed its approach to mass COVID-19 vaccinations beginning in April, using age as the main factor to determine who gets vaccinated first.
Friday morning, the B.C. government provided an approximate outline of when British Columbians will be able to receive their COVID-19 vaccine. It will be...
Cases of COVID-19 are declining in many parts of Canada, but experts say those early positive signs are dependent on widespread restrictions.
Quebec, now under a province-wide curfew, has seen new cases decline. Ontario has showed 11 consecutive declines in its seven-day average, a metric that helps to spot...
Federal health officials announced that multiple new cases of the COVID-19 variants first discovered in the UK and South Africa have been found in Canada.
On Friday, Canada’s chief public health officer said that the country has now confirmed 31 cases of the UK variant of coronavirus, and three cases...
Reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily are causing alarm, but virus experts say it’s unclear if that’s the case or whether they pose any concern for vaccines or cause more severe disease.
Viruses naturally evolve as they move through the...
The Ontario government is providing up to $125 million to immediately add over 500 critical care and high intensity medicine beds to hospitals in areas with high rates of COVID-19 transmission. A portion of the funding will also be used to temporarily transition Mackenzie Health's Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital into...
Investigators at the Yale School of Medicine have recently discovered how the SARS-CoV-2 virus can directly infect the central nervous system. The findings have also begun to help give a more thorough understanding of how the virus impacts cells in the brain, potentially aiding in the development of treatments...
