Most Ontarians are concerned about Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination rates compared with other countries, a new poll suggests.
The Campaign Research survey for the Toronto Star found 51 per cent of respondents give this country “poor” marks for its rollout of vaccines.
About one-third — 29 per cent — said it was “fair” while 12 per cent said it was “good” and two per cent said it was “excellent” with seven per cent having no opinion.
MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered reassurances on the safety of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Monday as the list of European countries suspending its use due to safety concerns grew.
Germany joined others in Europe pausing their use of the AstraZeneca vaccine over reports of blood clots in some recipients, even though European regulators say there’s no evidence the shot is to blame.
Thalidomide was hailed as a wonder drug for pregnant women… just sayin
Ontario is reporting 1,268 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 34,000 tests completed. Locally, there are 366 new cases in Toronto, 220 in Peel and 147 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,191,553 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 15, 2021
The Canada-U.S. border’s been shut down for a year — and there’s no reopening plan
The one-year anniversary of the quasi-shutdown of the Canada-U.S. border will come and go next week, with no end in sight to disruptions that have affected lives, businesses, and communities touching the world’s so-called longest undefended frontier.
Once again, the tightening will be extended on March 21 for another month as it has every month since the pandemic crashed onto this continent last year.
Once again, the people most affected will wonder what the plan is for reopening and what sorts of public-health stats would allow regular travel to resume.
The truth is: There is no plan.
Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, made the rounds on Sunday morning shows and cautioned that the US isn’t out of the woods yet as it continues to see roughly 55,000 new cases each day – down from a peak of nearly 249,000 per day in mid-January.
The list of government-approved quarantine hotels in Canada has grown substantially since the new regulations were put in place a month ago.
Trudeau’s making this permanent. https://t.co/bzWjk4T60m
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) March 14, 2021
David Asher, the former lead investigator into the state department’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, believes the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was the result of an accident by the Chinese military, which was researching a bioweapon at the time.
OTTAWA — The biggest lesson Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she learned from the experience with COVID-19 a year into the pandemic is that: “we failed the most vulnerable.”
“I think the tragedy and the massive lesson learned for everyone in Canada is that we were at every level, not able to protect our seniors, particularly those in long-term care homes,” Tam said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period. “Even worse is that in that second wave, as we warned of the resurgence, there was a repeat of the huge impact on that population.”
And Government is still failing the vulnerable.
My Mother died from Covid she contracted in a hospital. A hospital that holds many seniors as it is a physio rehab facility.
Despite earlier outbreaks vaccination was not offered vulnerable patients at that facility.
That’s murder.
Ontario is reporting 1,747 cases of #COVID19 and over 47,600 tests completed. Locally, there are 545 new cases in Toronto, 352 in Peel and 163 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,158,355 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 14, 2021
Ont. reports more than 1,700 new cases of COVID-19 but province says tally inflated due to ‘data catchup’
The province is reporting more than 1,700 new cases of COVID-19 but officials say today’s case count is artificially high due to a “data catchup process.”
Provincial health officials are reporting 1,747 new infections today, up from 1,468 on Saturday and 1,371 on Friday.
As per usual, patriotic protesters showed up at the Radisson quarantine hotel near the Toronto airport to hopefully shuttle inmates — er, I mean, “guests” — to their homes. Alas, there were no takers on this day.
And so it was that the demonstrators decided on a whim to move their protest five minutes east to the Toronto HQ of Deco Labels, which happens to be owned by none other than Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
Capitalizing on people’s fear and impulse to control others, NBC offers suggestions that take absurd CDC guidelines and crank them up to a zany extreme.
What do frontline health care workers and first responders know about COVID-19 vaccines that politicians and their public health advisers don’t?
According to a January analysis by Gallup, 51 percent of health care workers and first responders polled in December were unconvinced of the merits of getting vaccinated, even if the vaccine “was free, available, FDA approved and 90% effective.”
Kavasutra, a Florida-based chain of bars that sells drinks made with the sedative plant kava, is taking heat for banning elementary teachers who still teach remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A French actor stripped naked on stage during a scaled-back César Awards ceremony in Paris to protest against the government’s closure of theatres and cinemas during the coronavirus pandemic.
Corinne Masiero had “no culture no future” written on her chest and “give us art back Jean” on her back, in a message to Prime Minister Jean Castex.
Ontario is reporting 1,468 cases of #COVID19 and over 58,400 tests completed. Locally, there are 381 new cases in Toronto, 226 in Peel and 168 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,116,496 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 13, 2021
Canada surpasses 900K cases of COVID-19 as variant spread raise concern over 3rd wave
Canada reached another milestone in its fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic Friday as the country officially clocked over 900,000 cases of COVID-19.
Another 3,476 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by health authorities across Canada, pushing the country’s total caseload to 903,238, of which 850,053 have since recovered.
