Trudeau’s staff detailed potential changes to the Emergencies Act last year to force price caps on manufacturers and “expand” the authority of the procurement minister, Anita Anand, while the prime minister publicly rejected the need for such amendments.
Dr. Spot, a dog-like mobile robot programmed to triage hospital patients, is the newest front-line health-care worker to join the fight against COVID-19.
Grandma is going to freak out.
“There’s a lot of folks who think that, due to climate change and due to the globalization in general, it is inevitable that we’ll deal with more and more viruses like this,” Dr. Fauci told Meet the Press.
Allegations that the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, improperly used the power of his office to shield political donors from Covid-19 lawsuits have reportedly become the subject of an FBI investigation.
Federal investigators are said to be looking into how a provision granting immunity to hospital and nursing home executives became a late addition to the state’s budget before it was passed last spring.
Ontario is reporting 1,745 cases of #COVID19 and over 56,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 478 new cases in Toronto, 344 in Peel, 174 in York Region and 116 in Hamilton.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,420,599 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 19, 2021
FUREY: Here’s what happened when one Toronto school had a new variant case
There’s no reason why anyone would think Earl Beatty Junior and Senior Public School, located in Toronto’s east end Danforth neighbourhood, was the site of any recent pandemic woes.
There are no recent media stories about the school. There’s very little social media chatter. And the school for some reason doesn’t even appear on the Ontario government’s listing of schools that have had reported COVID-19 cases during the past two weeks. (Although it is listed on the TDSB’s page of schools with active cases.)
Ontario is reporting 1,553 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 58,600 tests completed. Locally, there are 404 new cases in Toronto, 294 in Peel and 176 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,359,453 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 18, 2021
Strict three-week lockdown needed to stop explosive COVID-19 variant growth, Ontario science table says
TORONTO — A three-week lockdown in certain regions of the province is necessary to blunt the explosive growth of the variants of concern, Ontario’s COVID-19 scientific advisory table says.
Dr. Peter Juni, the scientific director of the advisory table, believes Ontario could see between 2,500 to 5,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day in a few weeks, if the current trends continue.
It never ends.
Every mask law in Canada has a list of exemptions. These exemptions are not technicalities or loopholes — they’re an essential part of the law and any store that refuses to comply with them is breaking the law.
But Biden and administration officials have said the U.S. will not share its vaccines until after it has enough for its own people, leaving timing for any exports unclear.
If Patti out in Niagara Falls can get her sign in the ground, so can you!
Join Patti and the 10,000s of Ontarians who have already proudly planted their sign telling @fordnation and @JustinTrudeau #NoMoreLockdowns!
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— No More Lockdowns Canada (@NML_Canada) March 17, 2021
A three-week lockdown in certain regions of the province is necessary to blunt the explosive growth of the variants of concern, Ontario’s COVID-19 scientific advisory table says.
Dr. Peter Juni, the scientific director of the advisory table, believes Ontario could see between 2,500 to 5,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day in a few weeks, if the current trends continue.
Ontario recorded more than 1,500 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day total since early February, owing in large part to the variants of concern which account for more than half of the new cases.
“What we’re talking about here predominantly is the Golden Horseshoe, the Golden Horseshoe has a major problem, and we need to tackle this,” Juni told CTV News Toronto.
A year after “15 days to flatten the curve” began our lockdowns, we have enough data to answer the classic question about lockdowns (which still exist a year later in many places, including much of California): cui bono?
When all of this is said and done — when COVID-19 and the restrictions brought in by politicians no longer dictate our days — there’s one major change we need to make to our public health laws and regulations.
We need to strip public health doctors of some of their arbitrary powers to ensure we never live under a doctatorship again.
A White House spokesperson says the United States is carefully considering requests to eventually ship that country’s excess supplies of COVID-19 vaccines across the border to its neighbours in Canada and Mexico.
But she cautions that nothing is confirmed at this point.
The comments come amid mounting anticipation of what might happen to the stockpile of doses in the U.S. after that country has enough supply for all its residents, likely by late May.
Sounds more NO than Yes.
Last year we didn’t get up to much for my son’s second birthday. Ontario hadn’t yet gone into total lockdown by that point in March, but the schools had already shut down and it was clear there was more to come.
Oh well, we thought. He’s only two. He doesn’t know what he’s missing, so he’ll be content with a few presents and cake. We’ll make sure to do something extra next year.
Parents are exploring new educational options for a post-pandemic America.
Though Covid-related restrictions are easing across the country, fewer than half of America’s students are back in school full-time, according to Burbio, a website tracking school reopenings. A look at the national map shows that the most populous state, California, is also the most locked down, while the third-most populous, Florida, is almost completely back to normal. In October 2020, Brown University reported that politics and teachers’ union strength best explain how school boards approached reopening. In a September 2020 study, researchers Corey DeAngelis and Christos Makridis found that school districts in places with strong teachers’ unions were much less likely to offer full-time, in-person instruction in the fall.
