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She helped thousands get COVID-19 shots. Now she's on the hook for $600K
- A Kingston, Ont., doctor celebrated for organizing drive-thru vaccination clinics that helped thousands get shots at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is now being ordered to pay back more than $600,000 in fees for those same services.Dr. Elaine Ma said she organized 45 mass vaccination clinics that administered roughly 35,000 doses between April 2021 and the following February.Her work was recognized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, which granted her its Award of Excellence in 202
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Alberta government weighs future of COVID-19 vaccination as federal program winds down
The future of Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination program is unclear with federal funding set to end this summer.Ottawa has been paying for the shots and distributing them across the country since they became available.But the Public Health Agency of Canada quietly announced, last week, the provinces and territories will take over purchasing their own supply of COVID-19 vaccines."This approach is consistent with the approach for vaccines used in regular immunization programs," a Public Health Agency
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WHO marks 5 years since COVID-19 came on its radar — it became the worst pandemic in a century
On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization first learned about what ended up becoming the worst pandemic in over a century.That day, WHO's office in China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of what it called "viral pneumonia."The virus that might have seemed innocuous at the time ended up shaping our lives and our world in the weeks, months and years that unfolded, and came to be known as the COVID-19 pandemic."As we mark this mi
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Judge certifies Nova Scotia COVID-19 lawsuit as a class action
A Nova Scotia judge has certified a class action lawsuit against Northwood, a company that was described as at the epicentre of COVID-19 deaths in the province at the height of the pandemic in 2020.Some 53 people died in the Northwood complex in north-end Halifax.A lawsuit was launched shortly after the deaths. On Thursday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Scott Norton certified it as a class action.Lawyer Kate Boyle of the Halifax-based personal injury law firm Wagner called it "a really impor
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Guelph wastewater testing will continue for COVID-19 and more by university researchers
Wastewater in Guelph will continue to be monitored for COVID-19, influenza and other illnesses through a new partnership between researchers at the University of Guelph and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.The researchers will get samples of wastewater three times a week, then will submit their findings to public health, which will in turn publish it to a public online dashboard.Provincial funding for wastewater testing was cut on July 31 with the Ontario government citing a federal prog
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Where did COVID-19 originate? Saskatoon lab helps with genetic analysis that points to animal market
A team of scientists, including one in Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence that the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans, rather than originating from a laboratory leak. The analysis of hundreds of genetic samples provides strong but circumstantial evidence that the pandemic's origin is connected to the wildlife trade in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, said Angie Rasmussen, a study co-author and virologist at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infection Disea
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She helped thousands get COVID-19 shots. Now she's on the hook for $600K
A Kingston, Ont., doctor celebrated for organizing drive-thru vaccination clinics that helped thousands get shots at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is now being ordered to pay back more than $600,000 in fees for those same services.Dr. Elaine Ma said she organized 45 mass vaccination clinics that administered roughly 35,000 doses between April 2021 and the following February.Her work was recognized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, which granted her its Award of Excellence in 202
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Alberta's fall COVID-19 surge has arrived and hospitals are feeling it
Alberta is experiencing yet another COVID-19 upswing, and health experts warn it could get worse before it gets better.The province's respiratory virus dashboard shows 98 people have died due to the illness since the end of August. For comparison, there's been one flu death. During the same two-month period, 1,065 Albertans have been hospitalized due to COVID-19 and 54 have ended up in intensive care."This is a strong reminder that COVID is still out there and it's still a dangerous infection,"
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COVID XEC: What are the symptoms of the new variant and will the updated vaccine protect you? What to know
A new variant of COVID called XEC — a combination of two Omicron subvariants — is spreading in the middle of flu season.
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University of Waterloo stabber's COVID-19 isolation may have worsened his mental state, sentencing court told
Defence lawyers in the sentencing hearing for the former student who went on a stabbing rampage at the University of Waterloo last year are asking the judge to consider his mental state — which a psychologist testified may have further deteriorated during pandemic isolation.On Tuesday, Dr. Smita Vir Tyagi, a forensic and clinical psychologist retained by the defence, presented a report on Geovanny Villalba Aleman to the court in Kitchener, Ont.In speaking to Villalba Aleman during several sessio
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What this doctor has to say about the difficulty finding COVID-19 rapid tests in Windsor-Essex
With access to COVID-19 rapid tests becoming increasingly difficult in Windsor, a former director of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is advising people to do all they can to avoid contracting or spreading the virus.Dr. Fahad Razak, who grew up in Windsor, said people should treat testing and getting COVID-19 vaccines as part of their regular routine."Responding to illness like this is about being pragmatic … so if you can avoid getting other people sick, if you can test and avoid getti
