Ontario reports 640 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths
Ontario reported more than 600 new COVID-19 cases and 10 more deaths on Saturday, continuing a trend of declining case counts.
Provincial health officials logged 640 new coronavirus infections today, down from 727 on Friday and from 821 a week ago.
A Canadian COVID-19 study that turned out to be wrong has spread like wildfire among anti-vaxxers
An inaccurate Canadian study suggesting an extremely high rate of heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccines has been retracted due to a major mathematical error — but not before it spread like wildfire on anti-vaccination websites and social media.
The preprint study, which was released by researchers at the Ottawa Heart Institute last week but has not been peer-reviewed, looked at the rate of myocarditis and pericarditis cases after Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations in Ottawa from June 1 to July 31.
The study identified 32 patients with the rare side effects out of a total of 32,379 doses of mRNA vaccines given in Ottawa in the two-month period, finding an inordinately high rate of close to 1 in 1,000 — significantly higher than other international data has shown.
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