Ontario’s top public health official says that the province won’t add COVID-19 to the list of nine diseases that public school students must be immunized against after concluding that doing so would place “an additional burden” on public health agencies.
The tables at Karen’s Homestyle Cooking in downtown Peace River, Alta., sit empty.
Owner Karen Greaves would rather turn diners away than participate in Alberta’s vaccine passport program.
“I’m just totally done with it. From Day 1, I was done with it,” Greaves said Thursday.
“This is not about health and safety, it’s about control.”
Hockey and other minor sports leagues as well as fitness and swimming classes that operate out of municipal facilities in Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon will be put on hold because not enough coaches, instructors and players have been fully vaccinated.
Unvaccinated nurses all over the province are no longer permitted to work for British Columbia health authorities.
A group of Kamloops nurses who did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine is using their job loss as an opportunity to start up Ezra Wellness on Tranquille Road.
Washington, D.C. is the biggest home of lies and word games in the known cosmos.
In D.C., a seven-trillion-dollar punch in your wallet costs you absolutely nothing, according to the president of the United States himself.
In Washington, D.C. a fat, aging hippie man becomes the first “female” four-star admiral of the United States, and nobody is allowed to laugh.
The truth about Covid vaccines not only failing to stop the spread, but actually being a major transmission vehicle for Covid-19, has finally come out in the mainstream press. On Thursday, Bloomberg News pointed to a new study published by the medical journal “The Lancet” that further establishes that vaccinated individuals spread the Delta variant just as much as unvaccinated people do – indeed, slightly faster.
h/t Marvin
The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.
The latest recommendation says the emerging evidence suggests vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infection and mild COVID-19 disease may decrease over time, and a booster could help restore protection.
By the new year, mandatory boosters all round.
Ontario reports 419 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths
Ontario reported more than 400 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths today as the seven-day rolling average continued to drop.
Provincial health officials logged 419 new infections on Friday, up from 409 yesterday but down from 492 a week ago.
Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league
A fully vaccinated Ontario man has died after a COVID-19 outbreak swept through his adult hockey league.
… There were 15 COVID-19 cases linked to the hockey league and all were breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people, officials in York Region said.
Ontario is expanding its COVID-19 testing options for students and staff at the province’s 4,800 schools as well as increasing rapid testing requirements for unvaccinated staff.
Citizens are already feeling the effects of the food shortages, as the nation’s food supply currently can’t meet the demand, according to Radio Free Asia . And let’s not forget the soaring prices of just about everything.
Data from several states and the federal government suggests deaths among Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 rose sharply amid the nation’s most recent surge of infections, but experts say that is not unexpected as more of the population gets immunized.
Wut?!
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was booed at the annual fundraiser for the plumbers’ union on Sunday over her vaccine mandate forcing city workers to report their vaccination status or be placed on unpaid leave.
Video captured the moment Lightfoot was met with the resounding sound of boos as she was introduced to speak at the annual event to raise money for the political action committee.
The Plumbers Union Local 130 was the first union to endorse Lightfoot during the 2019 runoff election against Toni Preckwinkle.
An Ontario doctor and outspoken critic of the pandemic response who was previously banned from offering COVID-19 vaccine and mask exemptions has now been suspended.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) issued an interim order to suspend the certificate of registration for Dr. Rochagne Kilian effective 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
