The chief executive at Waterloo, Ont. innovation hub Communitech has spent much of the pandemic hearing about hospitals worried about dwindling inventories of COVID-19 tests, while companies less than 80 kilometres away have the ability to make more.
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.
Researchers say samples from nasal or throat swabs detected 64.5% of cases that were detected from PCR tests, while a combination of nose and throat swabs increased accuracy to 88.7%.
Whether you own one store or a chain of pharmacies, staffing is likely to be your largest expense, but also one of the major drivers of patients to your pharmacy.
