Category: Health

Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout needs to guarantee equal access for migrants and undocumented workers, advocates for migrant rights say. The Migrant Rights Network says it worries that countless migrant and undocumented workers won’t get vaccinated because of their immigration status — either because they lack access to health coverage or they fear that their personal information will…

Alberta Health Services phone lines are jammed, and the government website has crashed on the first day that all Albertans born in 1946 or earlier can book COVID-19 vaccinations. An additional 230,000 seniors age 75 and older are now eligible for the vaccine, along with all those in Phase 1A who are still receiving theirs, Dr….

Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine appeared safe and effective in trials, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff said in documents published on Wednesday, paving the way for its approval for emergency use. The FDA’s panel of independent experts is set to meet Friday to decide whether to approve the shot. While the panel is…

John Bennett and his family take a picture before quarantining. (Submitted by the Bennett family) It’s a nightmare scenario for many families in Newfoundland contending with the latest rise in COVID-19 numbers: Parents testing positive and having to divide their home for self-isolation, all while taking care of young children. For one St. John’s family…

COVID-19 levels are declining from the devastating peaks of the second wave across much of Canada, but experts say the threat of more contagious coronavirus variants threatens to jeopardize our ability to prevent a third wave. Canada has close to 850 confirmed cases of the variants first identified in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil,…

The Trudeau government has agreed with the Senate that Canadians suffering solely from grievous and incurable mental illnesses should be entitled to medical assistance in dying — but not for another two years. The two-year interlude is six months longer than what was proposed by senators. The longer wait is one of a number of changes…

COVID-19 has hit federal prisons twice as hard in the second wave of the pandemic compared to the first, according to a new report from Canada’s Correctional Investigator that recommends an inmate vaccination strategy to prevent more outbreaks behind bars. In a report released Tuesday, Ivan Zinger noted there have been 880 infections between November 2020…

The province’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is finally ramping up, with Quebecers 84 and older in the general population able to get shots as early as next week. Premier François Legault made the announcement during Tuesday afternoon’s COVID-19 briefing from Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. The atrium of the stadium, once home to the Montreal Expos, has been converted into a vaccination site. The…

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Sam Meister is 98 years old, and he’s furious at the Ontario government’s COVID-19 vaccination plan that is forcing seniors like him to remain segregated. “I would like to be a free man,” Meister said. “I would like to be a man that can move around and see family … I only see the house,…