After the virus behind COVID-19 spent 2020 wreaking havoc around the globe, this year started with a bit more hope — vaccination efforts were ramping up, after all — and a tinge of fear. Multiple new coronavirus variants have been…
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The family of a Pikwàkanagàn First Nation toddler diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder says the federal government has agreed to pay the full cost of a life-changing drug for the boy. Fourteen-month-old Kevin Verch was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type…
The latest: With hospital intensive care units in parts of Ontario reaching capacity due to COVID-19, a new hospital will open in Vaughan, Ont., next month to help relieve pressure on other facilities in the Greater Toronto Area, the province…
The latest: New Brunswick has rolled back the Edmundston and Grand Falls region to a more restrictive red phase and other regions face the same prospect as the province continues to see a surge in COVID-19 cases. The province reported 36 new…
When Shaleen Erwin became sick with COVID-19 in November, the pregnant mother from Springside, Sask., wasn’t surprised that she had a hacking cough and slept 16 hours a day. What astonished her was that she received a phone call every day…
Can rapid COVID-19 tests make high schools safer? That’s exactly what Dr. Caroline Quach is looking to find out — deploying the tests at two Montreal high schools to see if they can be used to curb transmission. “If we’re able…
The old saying holds that only fools and the dead never change their minds. Health Minister Christian Dubé is neither of those things. Eighteen days ago, at a news conference about Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccination plan, Dubé insisted his hands were tied by Pfizer’s requirements…
The latest: Pfizer says it will increase vaccine deliveries by mid-February. China building isolation hospitals in Hebei province to combat increase in infections. Brazilian approval of Sputnik V vaccine delayed by missing data. Some health-care workers are still hesitant to get…
Another GTA hospital worker on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic has died of the disease, his union has announced. In a statement posted online, CUPE Local 145 says Antonio Gaerlan, 54, a housekeeper in the Environmental Services Department at Etobicoke General Hospital, was the…
The latest: Canada’s procurement minister urged drugmaker Pfizer-BioNTech to get the country’s COVID-19 vaccine delivery schedule back on track as soon as possible as cases of the novel coronavirus surged past the 700,000 mark on Saturday. The country hit the…