COVID-19

It is a calculated risk, with the possibility that COVID-positive health workers and carers could infect colleagues and patients weighed against what the government says is a need to keep essential services running.

Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday that private companies, schools and healthcare sites must all prepare for a wave of illness by reinforcing safety protocols like physical distancing to protect as many people as possible.

E-prescribing and other digital health tools must remain central to Canada’s healthcare delivery system beyond the pandemic, argues Will Falk.

With Omicron raging through the population, we need to stay on top of—and properly fund—the science behind long-COVID, set to be a post-pandemic pandemic of its own.

The pandemic may mean you qualify even though in most years you would not.

Overworked pharmacy staff in Nova Scotia have been pressured to create false vaccination records for customers. 

Software developer Mike DiDomizio was frustrated with Ontario’s decentralized approach to booking rapid antigen tests at pharmacies. So he made his own website to help solve the problem.