COVID
Study suggests vaccines may improve symptoms for some COVID-19 long-haulers
Elaine McCartney typically keeps a list on hand of her 30 or so health issues following a bout of COVID-19 a year ago— in...
B.C. health minister says it’s time to ‘dig in’ to obey COVID-19 safety rules as cases mount
B.C. Minister of Health Adrian Dix has defended measures in place to limit the spread of COVID-19, even as his province set one-day case counts...
Record-high lumber prices add as much as $30K to the cost of building a house
As if Canada’s housing sector wasn’t already irrational enough, a pandemic-induced lumber shortage is pushing the price of building a home even higher....
Alberta MLAs quit coalition against public health restrictions after Ontario MPP invokes Hitler
Two members of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party caucus have quit a national coalition against public health restrictions, after the group’s founder...
Welcoming visitors is what Whistler does, but for the next 3 weeks the town wants you to stay away
The manager of Whistler Search and Rescue says anyone making plans to visit the Sea to Sky corridor over the next three weeks...
Gym outbreak in Quebec City leads to more than 140 COVID-19 infections
At least 141 people have contracted COVID-19 in connection to an outbreak at a gym in Quebec City, the regional health authority confirmed...
Health officer warned RCMP of challenge identifying patient zero in Campbellton COVID outbreak
The medical officer of health in the Campbellton region warned RCMP it would be difficult to identify Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola as patient zero in the...
Marketplace attended a COVID-19 conspiracy boot camp to see how instructors are targeting vaccine skeptics
While Canadian health authorities fight back against what Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has called “an infodemic” — the spread of false information...
In trying to contain COVID-19, we could be missing spread of HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis, experts warn
For more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted health-care workers and resources away from stopping the spread of other infectious diseases, including...
Auditor general reports today on public health agency’s pandemic response
The country’s auditor general will deliver a report today on how well prepared the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was to respond to the COVID-19...
Hundreds of ICU patients transferred between Ontario hospitals as COVID-19 admissions rise
For Toronto critical care physician Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, nearly every workday involves sending a handful of COVID-19 patients to other intensive care units. Sometimes that...
‘People are talking about the same things they talked about back then’: COVID stirs up memories of polio
When Elizabeth Lounsbury was eight years old, she snuck out of the house to go swimming with her friends. She had been taught to...
Manitoba First Nations race to deliver 100,000 shots in 100 days
First Nations leaders in Manitoba are racing against an early spring melt and the onset of new COVID-19 variants to vaccinate all adults in all...
The Real Reason Alex Rodriguez Flew To See Jennifer Lopez On Set
Over the weekend of March 20, 2021, Alex Rodriguez visited Jennifer Lopez in the Dominican Republic, after having spent the previous weekend there. A...
Ontario’s 3rd wave of COVID-19 could hit younger adults harder. Here’s why
In Scarborough, the east-end Toronto area that’s been hit hard by the pandemic, Dr. Lisa Salamon was shocked by the impact of COVID-19...
People are celebrating their COVID-19 vaccine shots with selfies. Some think it’s time to give it a rest
Initially, Dr. Alan Drummond welcomed the idea of the so-called vaccine selfie — people sharing their COVID-19 vaccination pictures on social media — as a celebration and...
