U.S. hospitals, weighing high demand and tight supplies, said they may limit use of a new Eli Lilly and Co antibody drug to COVID-19 patients with multiple risk factors for serious illness.
This business claims it built a better COVID-19 forecasting model but can’t get government to bite
As COVID-19 continues to surge across the country, a Canadian company says it's created software to better predict how the virus will spread and help slow the second wave, but it can't break through bureaucracy to show health officials how it can help.
Ontario LTC homes doing ‘much better’ in spite of outbreak that has led to 8 deaths, minister says
Ontario's long-term care minister defended her government's response Monday to COVID-19 outbreaks in homes, including one in which eight people have died — saying the province's has learned lessons from the first wave of the virus in the spring.
Quebec hockey team bounces back after learning tough lessons about COVID-19
'We thought we were doing everything right,' says coach after an outbreak of COVID-19 ripped through his team only two games into the season.
Why federal government should reject human challenge trials for COVID-19 vaccine
An e-petition before the House of Commons urges the government to approve a human challenge trial for COVID-19 vaccines, but there are several arguments against this approach, write Françoise Baylis and Landon J. Getz.
Alberta hospitals tighten visitor restrictions as COVID-19 cases soar
Alberta hospitals are tightening restrictions on visitors as a second wave of COVID-19 infections hits.
Alberta reveals its COVID-19 app has been used to trace only 20 cases over 6 months
Alberta's COVID-19 tracing app — which launched in May and has been downloaded more than 260,000 times — has been used in "approximately 20 cases" to track down contacts of someone who tested positive for the disease, the provincial government has revealed.
COVID-19 mortality rate higher in neighbourhoods with more visible minorities, says StatsCan
Residents of communities home to more visible minorities had a higher likelihood of dying from COVID-19 in Canada's three largest provinces, according to Statistics Canada, in a trend health experts say underscores the need for provinces such as B.C. and Quebec to improve their data collection on race and mortality.
Flu cases in Canada ‘exceptionally low’ so far, public health says
At this point in last year's flu season, Canada had already recorded 711 positive cases of influenza. So far this year, there have been just 17.
Nunavut woman says she called 911 from Ottawa hospital after being denied water
An Inuk woman from Pangnirtung says she was mistreated by nurses at the Civic Campus of Ottawa Hospital who refused to give her water and change her diaper.