The Chinese recently made public their use of anal swabs to screen patients for COVID-19. This new method of testing arrives as China is now seeing a surge in new coronavirus cases ahead of their annual Lunar New Year celebrations. The Hill reports that Chinese health care professionals only perform the...
Walgreens received permission to start booking its own COVID-19 vaccine appointments from the West Virginia Joint Interagency Task Force. James Hoyer, director of the task force, said the move is part of the "parallel paths" initiative, where different outlets (pharmacies, local doctors, local health care providers) will start taking a...
All residents 18 and older in Toronto hot spots are now eligible to book appointments at city-run clinics. Bookings can be made at http://toronto.ca/COVID-19 or by calling 1-833-943-3900. Some users of the booking site are reporting more than hour wait time to book an appointment, with tens of thousands of...
There are now 58 active cases of COVID-19 in the Algoma Public health Region and two hospitalizations. Algoma Public Health has reported five new cases of COVID-19, all in the Sault Ste. Marie area. These cases bring the pandemic total to 545 cases. Four of these cases were classified as close contact,...
Health Canada says the COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. biotech firm Moderna is safe for use in Canada, with officials saying Wednesday that “solid scientific proof show that the benefits outweigh the potential risks.” The vaccine is the second to be greenlit in Canada, following the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on Dec. 9. Moderna...
The BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) has revealed a new online dashboard that presents the results of the province’s Your Story, Our Future population health survey from May 2020. According to the BC CDC, 395,000 British Columbians participated in the survey, making it the largest population health survey...
For the fourth consecutive day, Ontario is reporting more than 700 new cases of COVID-19 as the average daily case count in the province continues to rise. Provincial health officials are reporting 741 new COVID-19 infections today, up from 728 on Saturday and 666 one week ago. The seven-day rolling average...
The vaccines are coming. After a long wait, B.C. is gearing up for one of its largest mass immunization efforts in history. On March 1, Premier John Horgan unveiled Phase 2 of the province’s COVID-19 rollout plan and announced that seniors over 80 and Indigenous people over 65 will start...
B.C.'s COVID-19 vaccine program is continuing to expand, with residents aged 30 and older now able to join waitlists to get a dose of AstraZeneca at participating pharmacies. The province's top health officials first announced last week that change would be coming, and B.C.'s vaccine information website was updated Thursday...
All New Brunswickers will be able to book their COVID-19 second dose appointments tomorrow, so long as 28 days have passed since their first dose. Appointments can be made through a participating pharmacy or at a Vitalité or Horizon health network clinic. As of right now, 76.3 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers have...