Many years ago, a professor at Dalhousie University told Dr. George Burden, a former writer for this magazine, an apocryphal story about Sir William Osler that had been passed down like an old rumour or a running joke.
A new report finds immigrants, refugees and other newcomers accounted for nearly 44% of Ontario's COVID-19 cases in the first half of the year. That's despite the fact overall testing rates were lower for those groups, and that they comprised just one-quarter of the population.
Actively testing large groups of people at increased risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) could be a component of Canada’s strategy to get people safely back to school and work, finds new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
