TORONTO – Despite the favorable Covid indicators in Ontario and the relaxation of the obligation to wear masks, we must not be taken by easy enthusiasm.
TORONTO – This latest wave of Covid-19 seems to be affecting more children. Visits to hospital emergency rooms by children with severe symptoms are uphill since the pandemic began two years ago. In the last two weeks, 89 children have been hospitalized across the province of Ontario. And the pressure on the Ford government to restore the obligation to wear masks, following this recent spike in infections related to children, is growing. “We’re seeing guys who have a high fever. Children for whom it is painful to breathe, others who need oxygen supplementation,” said Dr. Brett Belchetz who serves in a Toronto emergency room.
TORONTO – It is nice to be an anti vaxxer, until they touch your wallet. It is a real boom in first doses of vaccine in Quebec two days after the announcement by Prime Minister Francois Legault on the provincial government’s intention to impose a financial penalty in the form of a “health tax” for Quebec adults who are unvaccinated and are not in possession of a valid medical exemption.
TORONTO – Non c’è più tempo da perdere, quantomeno più di quello perso finora fra esitazioni e non-decisioni. Il governo provinciale ha annunciato, ieri, che da lunedì sarà aperta la somministrazione della terza dose di vaccino a tutti i cittadini dai 18 anni in su. Non solo: sarà possibile farla a distanza di tre mesi (e non più sei) dalla seconda. Un’accelerata prima auspicata e poi caldeggiata dall’Ontario Science Table che proprio ieri era tornato alla carica, invocando misure rapide per frenare l’impennata dei casi dovuta, con ogni probabilità, alla variante Omicron, molto più infettiva della Delta. Ma andiamo con ordine…
TORONTO – There is no more time to waste, at least more than that lost so far between hesitations and non-decisions. The provincial government announced today that the third dose of the vaccine will be open to all citizens aged 18 and over from Monday. Not only that: it will be possible to do it three months (and no longer six) from the second one. An acceleration first hoped for and then supported by the Ontario Science Table which just today returned to call for rapid measures to curb the surge in cases due, in all probability, to the Omicron variant, much more infectious than the Delta. But let’s go in order. (more…)
