COVID-19

The report, issued Friday, comes from a panel appointed by Premier Danielle Smith in 2022 to look at how data was collected and used to respond to COVID-19.

Chief executive Melanie Fraser says the Island’s emergency departments and acute-care units have been straining under a heavy workload for weeks.

Experts have cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against new outbreaks capable of triggering pandemics.

We have a treatment that works for people who get COVID-19. Why are so few of the patients who could benefit from it able to access it?

NACI recommended that seniors who are 80 years and older, residents of long-term care homes, and adults and children six months and older who are moderately to severely immunocompromised should get two doses of COVID-19 vaccine per year.

Access to Paxlovid has become increasingly challenging. Canada needs to do a better job at making it more accessible to those who would benefit most.

Meet the winner of the 2024 Medical Post Media Engagement Award – Trailblazer.

Given this rapid pace of growth, it can be challenging to keep current. This article offers an overview of vaccines recently approved and/or marketed in Canada to help make sense of all these recent changes.