2023-12-26 Long COVID will take your health, your wealth, and then it will come for your marriage
2023-12-12 Ignore the Johnson and Sunak circus: these are the real lessons from the Covid inquiry | Devi Sridhar
2023-12-05 Growing toll of COVID-19 on hospitals & population health should concern us
2023-12-06 COVID still killing 1,000 Americans weekly while hospitalizations rise
The dangerous delusion of immunity debt, Declining life expectancy, Long Covid and the brain and more
2023-11-28 Life expectancy for Canadians fell in 2022 for third year in a row, says StatCan
COVID-19 became the third-leading cause of death for Canadians last year, overtaking accidents and unintentional injuries for the first time since the disease emerged in 2020.
“This increase may in part be due to the exposure to new highly transmissible COVID-19 variants and the gradual return to normalcy,” the report said, pointing to reduced restrictions and the elimination of masking requirements.
2023-05-11 Why travelers with disabilities worry about Biden's end to COVID public health emergency
Here’s what a new study says about the effectiveness of masks against COVID-19
2023-10-27 Alberta doctors, nurses call on province for more transparency amid discrepancies in COVID-19 hospitalization data
An internal Alberta Health Services document obtained by CTV News indicates that the number of patients hospitalized provincially with COVID-19 has surpassed 900, despite available public data revealing just a third of those numbers.
As of Friday, the province's respiratory virus dashboard(opens in a new tab) showed 320 hospitalizations for SARS-CoV-2, indicating the data was up-to-date as of Oct. 21.
However, an internal document obtained by CTV News shows there were actually 898 COVID-19 patients province-wide as of Oct. 21, with an average of 912 COVID-19 patients in hospital over the previous seven days.
2023-09-22 | Nearly 83% of tested N.B. schools exceeded peak CO2 limits, air quality results show | CBC News
2023-09-11 | Will Back-to-School COVID Crush Families?
2023-09-07 | Pandemic Roundup | Patreon
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2023-09-10 | Covid’s back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away | Frances Ryan
2023-09-08 | What Canadians need to know about COVID rapid tests as fall approaches - National | Globalnews.ca
2023-09-07 Masks now mandatory in 'key patient care areas' at Kingston hospitals
2023-03-01 “Health is capitalism’s vulnerability”
2023-09-06 Covid surges in schools are leading to widespread absences
2023-08-10 COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help
How profound a toll COVID-19 has taken on the nation's heart health is only starting to emerge, years into the pandemic.
"We are seeing effects on the heart and the vascular system that really outnumber, unfortunately, effects on other organ systems," said Dr. Susan Cheng, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
2023-08-17 Surge of new COVID-19 cases in Canada due to EG.5 sub-variant | Watch News Videos Online
2023-01-20 Sask. on starting line of incoming COVID-19 wave: experts
"We should be seeing another resurgence of COVID, due to this (XBB.1.5) variant appearing."
2023-03-23 Stabilized and persistent: Experts look at the future of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan | Globalnews.ca
“We can’t maintain this level of usual pressure plus COVID-19 pressures without having negative impacts on staff and patients.”
2023-03-16 Researchers Are Getting Closer to Learning How to Treat and Prevent Long COVID
“Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of people around the world suffering from long-term complications of the virus, there is still no proven way to treat or prevent Long COVID—besides not getting infected in the first place.”
2023-08-21 Long COVID. Shorter Life? New research reveals an arduous road to recovery
Practically since the term “long COVID” was coined, anecdotal evidence and shorter-term studies indicated that the often-debilitating condition would not only affect significant numbers of people (roughly 15% of all U.S. adults have experienced long COVID symptoms) but also that it might do so in the most serious ways.
2023-01-05 Largest global study of 'long Covid' finds many patients unable to return to work six months later
The largest global study of “long Covid” to date has found that many of those suffering from ongoing illness after infection with Covid-19 are unable to return to work at full capacity six months later.
2023-01-24 Long Covid Is Keeping Significant Numbers of People Out of Work, Study Finds
An analysis of workers’ compensation claims in New York found that 71 percent of claimants with long Covid needed continuing medical treatment or were unable to work for six months or more.
2023-07-21 One in 5 Kids Had Long COVID Symptoms Months After Infection
"Close to one-fifth of kids with COVID-19 may still have lingering symptoms months after their initial infection, new research finds."
2023-07-23 Long COVID Is Disabling Kids. Why We Ignore It | The Tyee
They also worry about the effect of COVID-19 on children’s developing brains:
“These long COVID symptoms, especially memory problems, can significantly affect the self-confidence and development of children in coming years,” the researchers write.
“Children under 10–12 years are supposed to be [in] the most important stages for the brain development, which [implies] that the effects of viral infection on children’s brains can be more destructive.”
2023-02-23 Massive surge in hospitalizations of babies and young kids due to COVID recorded in 2nd year of pandemic
2023-02-28 Fifteen Surprising, Strange and Troubling Details Buried in the Emergencies Act Inquiry’s Final Report
2023-08-29 Is It Time to Wear a Mask Again?