Truck drivers protesting against the vaccine mandate at the border have raised more than $4.5 million from donors around the world but the fundraising platform GoFundMe has temporarily stopped organizers from using the money. The Freedom Convoy 2022 aims to bring truckers from across the country and the U.S. to Ottawa to protest new rules…
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Ontario Health Officials Want to Change the Definition of Fully Vaccinated
After a Hunger Games-esque start to the COVID-19 booster shotr ollout in Ontario, more than 40 per cent of residents aged five and up have now managed to get their third dose as leaders continue to urge the public to do so in the face of the Omicron variant. The province’s “boost up” campaign has been going strong since eligibility was expanded to all…
Lunar New Year is China’s biggest holiday. For the third straight year, many families will be forced to spend it apart
Hong Kong (CNN)More than two years have passed since China sealed off an entire city of more than 11 million people to curb the world’s first Covid-19 outbreak. But in many parts of the country, tough coronavirus restrictions are still making it difficult for people to travel just days before the biggest festival of the year. Sunday…
‘I’m done with COVID’ is easier said than done
“I’m done with COVID. I’m done,” Bari Weiss thundered on a recent edition of Real Time with Bill Maher. The audience applauded wildly as the opinion writer and Substack star complained that she had diligently followed public-health measures early on in the pandemic, and it all seems to have been in vain. Ms. Weiss said she was sick…
UW researchers predict end to the pandemic
SEATTLE — Thursday marked two years since the pandemic began, but a leading group of researchers in Washington say we are close to the end of the pandemic as well as a shift in how we deal with the virus. The prediction came during a briefing from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics…
Trudeau Broke Down How Much Student Grant Money Is Up For Grabs RN & You Could Get Up To $6K
Students with disabilities can qualify for even more money. Justin Trudeau is reminding people across the country who are getting a post-secondary education that student grants have been increased and are still available. On January 18, the prime minister tweeted about the updates that have come into effect for the Canada Student Grants program, which changed the amount of…
Omicron wave means some Ontario hospitals are seeing more kids with COVID-19
Though the uptick in pediatric COVID hospitalizations is concerning, doctors stress the vast majority of children with the virus will have mild illness that can be treated at home. Ontario hospitals are seeing more children sick with COVID-19 during the Omicron wave than at other points in the pandemic, though the highly transmissible variant does…
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Social connectedness, sleep, and physical activity associated with better mental health among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Longitudinal survey data of more than 3,000 adolescents ages 11-14 recorded before and during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 found that supportive relationships with family and friends and healthy behaviors, like engaging in physical activity and better sleep, appeared to shield against the harmful effects of the pandemic on adolescents’ mental…
Do not assume COVID-19 pandemic reaching ‘end game’, warns WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday that it was dangerous to assume the Omicron variant would herald the end of COVID-19′s acutest phase, exhorting nations to stay focused to beat the pandemic. “It’s dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant and that we are in the end…