COVID-19

Drugs could offer safer treatment than current options to help stop worst outcomes due to hyperinflammation.

Montreal emergency room doctors say a shortage of healthcare workers that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving emergency rooms overwhelmed in the eastern part of the city.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shaved off his beard and trimmed his hair. Pre-writ electioneering is occurring across the country. But coronaviruses often show seasonality and we may not be as done with the pandemic as we'd like. Now is not the time for an early election call.

The 90-year-old had not been vaccinated.

The combination of surgeries resuming and COVID-19 freedoms means a surge in demand.

The nation's top doctor says it's "certainly possible'' that Americans eventually will be advised to get a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine.

Provincial officials said this week that they hope to include more family care practitioners in the immunization campaign in an effort to reach residents still without first doses and slowly shift away from mass clinics.