Healthcare

Are we paying enough attention to data on which cohorts are ending up in hospital even after receiving two doses of COVID-19 vaccine?

An emergency room physician in Toronto, Dr. Kashif Pirzada started lobbying colleagues and the federal and Ontario provincial governments to bring rapid testing to schools, a year ago.

Scott Livingstone, the health authority's CEO, says in a statement that he recognizes moving patients out of the province is stressful for the families involved.

The doses are about one-third the size given to adults and teens age 12 and up.

Faced with long lineups and heavy demand, health officials in New Brunswick were forced to cut short the distribution of free COVID-19 rapid-test kits at three locations today.

But risks around basilar artery thrombosis is ‘a wake up call.'