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Fleece neck gaiters and bandanas are least effective at stopping COVID-19 droplets, study finds
It turns out the common refrain that any mask is better than no mask is not always true, researchers say. But their study, published online this month in the journal Science Advances , al...
Gyms are open, but are they safe in the age of COVID-19? Here's what you need to know
Gyms have reopened across most of Canada and that means membership fees have restarted. Many people now have to decide whether to return to the gym, or freeze or cancel their memberships and ...
China spat may be threatening Canada's bid to get early access to leading COVID-19 vaccine: experts
Canada’s first big push for a COVID-19 vaccine may be falling victim to sour relations with Beijing, as Chinese officials continue to hold up a shipment of the drug needed to carry out prom...
Cross-border steel worker forced to choose between job and kids wins COVID-19 ruling
The steel worker crossed the border every day, driving from his home in Michigan to his job on the other side of St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. As far as the federal government was...
Case of Ontario man who ignored COVID-19 quarantine order shows challenges of crucial contact tracing
When Ontario public-health nurse Joanne Alessi phoned Dean Macauley this month to tell him he’d been in close contact with someone infected with COVID-19, the call did not go well. Aless...
Study confirms massive age differences in COVID-19 death rates, middle-aged hit harder than thought
A new global study of COVID-19 death rates confirms that people older than 80 years old are massively more likely to die from the disease and finds that policy responses to protect seniors co...
Pandemic has added significantly to Canada's overall death toll: Ontario study
There’s more evidence that COVID-19 has significantly added to the overall death toll in Canada, with a new study suggesting the pandemic boosted the number of fatalities in Ontario by up t...
Pandemic has added significantly to Canada's overall death toll: Ontario study
There’s more evidence that COVID-19 has significantly added to the overall death toll in Canada, with a new study suggesting the pandemic boosted the number of fatalities in Ontario by up t...
Has COVID-19 ended gyms as we know them? One fitness expert has seen the future, through Zoom
The busiest day in the history of Forme Fitness was the day before lockdown. Last September, Chris Smits and his brother, Marty, reinvested in the boutique gym they founded together five year...
Researchers look to unlock secrets of COVID-19 herd immunity by studying Canada's Hutterite colonies
The time of COVID-19 has not been a happy one for western Canada’s Hutterite colonies. A series of outbreaks made public by health authorities has prompted harsh discrimination from neig...
Which Canadians get COVID-19 vaccines first? Experts will face tough decisions
When scientists predict that a COVID-19 vaccine could be approved as soon as the new year, they raise an alluring prospect: an early 2021 end to the pandemic and all its devastation. But i...
Support grows for deliberately exposing vaccine trial subjects to COVID-19, with Oxford team leading the way
It began as a proposal on the fringes of science: deliberately exposing people to COVID-19 to speed up development of vaccines, even though there’s no sure-fire treatment for the potentiall...
More than 80% of cross-border travellers are exempt from COVID-19 quarantine rules, government says
Government officials have repeated the contention often: anyone entering Canada from another country must go into quarantine for two weeks to avoid importing COVID-19. Polls suggest Canadi...
Top Toronto health official wins rare intervenor status in court battle over vaccinating couple's children
Toronto’s chief public-health official has won the right to intervene in a court dispute over vaccinating a divorced couple’s children, a rare step Dr. Eileen de Villa says was necessary ...
COVID-19 outbreak: 18 new cases linked to nail salon in Kingston, Ont.
BY ELLIOT FERGUSON, KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD A COVID-19 outbreak at a nail salon in Kingston, Ont., is now linked to 18 local cases of the virus, according to public health. In a video Fr...
http://nationalpost.com/health/covid-19-outbreak-18-new-cases-linked-to-nail-salon-in-kingston-ont
Canada’s surprising history and questionable partnership with a Chinese company and its military-backed COVID-19 vaccine
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last month that Canada would soon be holding human trials of a new COVID-19 vaccine, there was a lot of excitement, and some confusion. The develo...
Hundreds of COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented by eliminating four-person nursing-home rooms: study
A new study points to a disturbingly simple explanation for some of the havoc wrought by COVID-19 in Canada’s nursing homes: keeping residents in ward-like shared accommodation can be letha...
Why didn't Black Lives Matter protests spread COVID-19? Because everyone else stayed home, study suggests
When millions of people streamed into the streets around the world to protest the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, it gave a sinking feeling to public heal...
How my sister's cells attacked my body, and changed my life
The novel coronavirus is dominating headlines right now, but every illness starts as a mystery, every cure as a long shot. And as MARGARET LYNCH writes, even successful new medical treatments ...
http://nationalpost.com/health/how-my-sisters-cells-attacked-my-body-and-changed-my-life
Public Health Ontario suffered exodus of senior leaders and budget cuts before the COVID-19 pandemic struck
Thirteen years ago, Dr. Natasha Crowcroft, a Cambridge-trained physician and expert in infectious disease surveillance, moved to Toronto from London to help rebuild Ontario’s public health ...
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/covid-19-public-health-ontario-budget-cuts
'Optimism tinged with anxiety': What to expect from the next 100 days of COVID-19, according to experts
“What’s keeping you awake at night?” That’s the question we put to doctors, scientists, philosophers, psychologists, futurists, microbiologists and bioethicists, 100 days after the W...
The COVID-19 coronavirus is changing. What's not clear is what it means
When a handful of doctors in northern Italy recently claimed that the virus that causes COVID-19 appears to be losing steam, that it no longer seems to be the same “biological bomb” it w...
http://nationalpost.com/health/the-coronavirus-is-changing-whats-not-clear-is-what-it-means
Children don't need to wear masks or follow strict social distancing when they return to school: SickKids experts
Students returning to school this fall should not have to wear masks or maintain social distancing while at play, Canada’s largest children’s hospital argues in a new report that stresses th...
New Zealand government keeps it real, uses actors portraying naked porn stars in viral internet safety video
A new TV ad featuring actors portraying porn stars is the latest sensation in New Zealand. The ad, part of a series of public service spots about internet safety, has been making waves while ai...
Heroes of the pandemic: North Bay teens made a do-it-yourself sterilizer kit that can kill the COVID-19 virus
Fionna Truong had the perfect 15th birthday party planned, pandemic or not. Two of her best pals, Ella Kelso and Emily Yates, were meeting at her house, at a socially appropriate distance, to...
Senior Living: This boomer has put her travelling days behind her
OK, here goes: I hate travelling. It is outright boomer heresy to say so, for if the world has been our oyster, as we are interminably reminded, why on Earth would anyone so blessed be so cav...
Senior Living: Do you dare to leverage? Maybe. But don’t buy stocks.
Leverage lending means borrowing money, often writing off the interest based on what the funds are used for, and then investing in something that we feel will give us a higher return than the am...
Sunny weather and still trapped by COVID: Are the kids going to be okay?
April is famously the cruellest month because that is when flowers start growing in The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem of cultural decay. Likewise, as school wraps up for Canadian ch...
What's safe? Here's how to avoid getting COVID-19 as the world reopens
The lifting of lockdowns is posing an urgent question for people emerging warily back into society: where are they most at risk of contracting coronavirus? The dangers vary greatly with ac...
Face masks, goggles, shields and visors: Experts weigh in on the best COVID-19 protection
It took nearly two months for Canada’s federal health leaders to come around to the case for face mask use en masse, when physical distancing is an issue, to curb COVID-19’s spread. Some ...
Senior Living: The real cost of social distancing
For months, we’ve all been practising social distancing: six to 10 feet, to avoid transmission of the COVID-19 virus. And then there’s my friend Susan Godwin, a Montreal suburbanite whose...
http://nationalpost.com/health/seniors/senior-living-the-real-cost-of-social-distancing
Senior Living: Time to lock in a low borrowing rate
A short recession or a long recession, that is the question! While we have reduced our growth estimates for this year, it is believed that we will experience a relatively strong rebound in 20...
http://nationalpost.com/health/seniors/senior-living-time-to-lock-in-a-low-borrowing-rate
COVID-19, the new 'occupational disease'? Thousands of workers compensation claims filed over coronavirus infections
Workers compensation boards across Canada have received thousands of claims from employees who say they contracted COVID-19 on the job, underscoring how the pandemic has become a new workplac...
Trudeau offers $14B to provinces for anti-COVID-19 efforts through rest of year
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is offering $14 billion to the provincial and territorial governments for measures to keep COVID-19 at bay. Trudeau says C...
Trudeau to offer premiers billions to help reopen the economy safely
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to offer premiers billions in federal funding to help them safely reopen provincial and territorial economies without triggering an explosive second w...
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on June 5, 2020: There are 93,726 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. — Quebec: 52,143 confir...
http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/the-latest-numbers-on-covid-19-in-canada-72-2
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on June 5, 2020: There are 93,726 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. — Quebec: 52,143 confir...
http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/the-latest-numbers-on-covid-19-in-canada-72-3
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown
Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: NEWFOUNDLAND A...
Ontario lifts restrictions, reopens short-term rentals starting today
TORONTO — Ontario is lifting restrictions on short-term rentals today. Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli says the facilities were able to resume operations as of 12:01 a.m. Lodges...
COVID-19 modeling data highlight path to fewer restrictions, vacations
VICTORIA — British Columbia is making summer holiday plans as COVID-19 cases continue declining and businesses and communities look to wider reopenings while taking precautions to prevent the ...
Authors retract influential Lancet article that found hydroxychloroquine risks
NEW YORK — An influential medical journal article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients was retracted on Thursday, adding to the controversy around a d...
It can take 10 years to develop a vaccine. How do you do it in one? Inside Canada's race for a COVID-19 vaccine
“It’s been going on since February, so you need to sleep sometime, right? At least, I can’t just go on and on and on. We work sometimes 15, 16 hours a day. I’m not going to lie and sa...
Ottawa jail inmates on hunger strike over food, lack of sanitary supplies
More than a dozen inmates at an Ottawa jail are on a hunger strike over conditions at the institution, which they say have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meals served still frozen, sm...
COVID-19 unemployment could trigger more than 2,000 suicides in Canada, study warns
Unemployment brought on by the COVID-19 lockdown could trigger as many as 2,100 extra suicides this year and next, predicts a new study whose lead author is calling on governments to re-open ...
http://nationalpost.com/health/covid-19-canada-unemployment-depression-suicide
Baseball, soccer will soon be allowed as Quebec eases COVID-19 restrictions
MONTREAL — Quebec will allow outdoor team sports to gradually resume next week as the province continues to emerge from its COVID-19 shutdown, the government announced on Thursday Outdoor p...
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Trudeau says new modelling shows COVID-19 in decline but fight must continue
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says new federal modelling shows that COVID-19 is in decline across Canada but the country is not out of the woods. He says the continuing threat mean...
New Canadian modelling shows COVID-19 waning but relaxing restrictions still risky
OTTAWA — Canada’s top doctor says the country has been successful at slowing the spread of COVID-19 but is warning that relaxing public health restrictions too quickly or too soon could lead...
New Brunswick's first COVID-19 death linked to nursing home outbreak
FREDERICTON — The first person in New Brunswick to die from COVID-19 is being remembered as a hard-working man whose top concern was taking care of his family. Daniel Ouellette, 84, died Th...
New Brunswick's first COVID-19 death linked to nursing home outbreak
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick public health officials are reporting the province’s first death from COVID-19. In social media posts, the family of a man in his 80s who had been living in th...
Premier Doug Ford acknowledges systemic racism in Ontario
TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford has backtracked on his comments that Canada doesn’t have the same “systemic, deep roots” of racism as the United States, acknowledging that Ontario has a hist...