Walgreens on Tuesday again apologized for a "technical glitch" with the COVID vaccine scheduler on its website, marking the third time in as many weeks that the company has acknowledged issues with its online appointment sign-up process. Users began to report on Monday that the Walgreens website had booked second-dose...
Toronto has launched its own website and hotline for booking COVID-19 vaccines as it waits for a provincial system to make its debut. The website says appointments are only available at this time to priority groups identified by the province. Those include people aged 80 or older, some health-care workers and Indigenous...
Some older Ontarians could soon be rolling up their sleeves to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at their local pharmacy. The province is set to receive a shipment of 194,000 doses of the recently approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine today. Health Canada has recommended against using the vaccine on those above the age of...
The selfless action of a young Humboldt Bronco hockey player and his family has touched the hearts and minds of Canadians, and Manitobans have responded in a big way to the decision to give the gift of life. “Since the tragic story broke, Manitobans have been signing up online to...
As COVID-19 vaccine supplies ramp up across the country, most provinces and territories have released details of who can expect to receive a shot in the coming weeks. The military commander handling logistics for Canada's vaccine distribution program says there will be enough vaccine delivered to give a first dose...
The correlation between the high concentration of fine particles and the severity of influenza waves is well known to epidemiologists. An interdisciplinary team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the ETH Zürich spin-off Meteodat investigated possible interactions between acutely elevated levels of fine particulate matter and the virulence...
Boris Stern, A 92-year-old Battle of Bulge survivor has been reunited with a dog tag he lost days before the bloody World War II battle 73 years ago. Thursday, an envelope addressed to Stern arrived from a man named Jean Paul Mandier in France. He picked it up at 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...
Rite Aid has added four days this month when educators, school employees and childcare workers will be given priority to book coronavirus vaccine appointments. Rite Aid offered COVID-19 vaccine appointments only to teachers, school staff and child care workers for two days last week in seven states, including New Jersey,...
Moderna announced Thursday that it has started testing its coronavirus vaccine candidate in adolescents. The company, which made one of two vaccines expected to be approved soon for adult use in the U.S., said it plans to enroll 3,000 U.S. kids as young as 12 in the trial. So far,...