COVID-19

Confession time: I love to shop. I love wearing nice clothes. I like nice shoes. I truly appreciate a scarf with a floral design in the exact shade of fuschia as the stripe on my pencil skirt. 

The new U.S. study is enrolling up to 1,420 healthy adults, ages 18 to 55, to test the updated Omicron-based shots for use as a booster or for primary vaccinations.

At this point in the pandemic (more than six months after most Canadian adults became eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine), should we declare this level of vaccination coverage as the “vaccine ceiling?”

Vaccine hesitancy expert Kate Allen warned early on that parents would be slower to vaccinate their five to 11-year-olds than they were to vaccinate themselves or even their older kids, since parents tend to be more cautious when it comes to young children.

During the Omicron wave, we’ve been operating under the assumption that most of our readers are all too acutely aware of the devastating effects of Omicron on the healthcare system and everyone in it.

Seven characteristics pharmacy leaders can use to prevent burnout and capitalize on the future they’ve earned.

Researchers are recommending clinical trials to study cannabidiol’s effects on SARS-CoV-2 after encouraging results in the laboratory and an association in a large cohort study.

The province is no longer publishing information on COVID-19 cases in schools due a restricted testing policy but it is sharing data on absences online, whether or not they are related to the virus.