“China eats weird animals disease”

In recent weeks, a seeming contradiction has emerged: States in the U.S. that have had little to no COVID-19 restrictions have gotten case counts under control, while in Canada there are provinces still struggling with a third wave despite having never fully reopened.

It has the potential to become fuel for anti-lockdown protesters: If those states have opened up and brought case counts down, why can’t we? Do lockdowns not work?

Lockdowns slow an outbreak but vaccination seems key.

Professor Explains Flaw in Many Models Used for COVID-19 Lockdown Policies

Economics professor Doug Allen wanted to know why so many early models used to create COVID-19 lockdown policies turned out to be highly incorrect. What he found was that a great majority were based on false assumptions and “tended to over-estimate the benefits and under-estimate the costs.” He found it troubling that policies such as total lockdowns were based on those models.

Ontario is reporting 2,073 cases of #COVID19 and over 28,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 685 new cases in Toronto, 389 in Peel, 231 in York Region and 144 in Durham.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 11, 2021

Ont. records lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since March as seven-day average dips below 3,000

That’s a Big Drop, is the count off again?

Indian doctors warn against using cow poop as COVID cure

As COVID-19 ravages India, some have taken to rubbing cow feces and urine on their bodies as a way to fight the virus.

Doctors are warning against the practice, saying there’s no proof it boosts immunity or helps treat COVID.

“There are also health risks involved in smearing or consuming these products – other diseases can spread from the animals to humans,” Dr. JA Jayalal, national president of the Indian Medical Association, told Reuters.

Canucks are Gungho for Covid passports USA not so much

It’s been a rough 15 months since Canada’s first case of COVID-19. As it stands, our country’s pandemic response hovers somewhere between subpar and wondering what’d happen if we just let Polkaroo run the country for a bit. Yet amid all the anger, despair, and more anger, Canadians on both all sides of the political spectrum see a light at the end of the tunnel: voting the incompetent, corrupt, and cowardly out of office when the pandemic finally ends.

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are setting the table to extend Ontario’s pandemic “stay-at-home” order for another two weeks, until June 2.

“We need to stay the course for right now,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday.

Ford declared a state of emergency on April 16, which curbed activities like golf, tennis, and basketball, in a bid to keep people from going out and spreading COVID-19.

Dozens of residents in two Ontario nursing homes hit hard by the coronavirus died not from COVID-19 but from dehydration and neglect, the Canadian military says in reports obtained by The Globe and Mail.

The documents contain new details about the deplorable conditions in two Toronto homes before the Forces stepped in last year, revealing for the first time that causes other than COVID-19 hastened the deaths of residents as outbreaks spiralled out of control and staffing collapsed.

This is Murder. (Go Incognito)

Ontario reports lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in nearly six weeks

Ontario is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in nearly six weeks but the positivity rate remains extremely high, underscoring the precarious position that Ontario remains in.

The Ministry of Health says that there were 2,716 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, along with another 19 deaths.

Mucormycosis: The ‘black fungus’ maiming Covid patients in India

On Saturday morning, Dr Akshay Nair, a Mumbai-based eye surgeon, was waiting to operate on a 25-year-old woman who had recovered from a bout of Covid-19 three weeks ago.

Inside the surgery, an ear, nose and throat specialist was already at work on the patient, a diabetic.

He had inserted a tube in her nose and was removing tissues infected with mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection. This aggressive infection affects the nose, eye and sometimes the brain.