“China eats weird animals disease”

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.

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.

Ontario is reporting 1,508 cases of #COVID19 and over 49,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 542 new cases in Toronto, 253 in Peel and 107 in York Region.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,301,334 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 17, 2021

96% of Canadians who test positive for coronavirus aren’t using COVID Alert app properly

The Canadian government said the COVID Alert app was the next great hope in the struggle against the novel coronavirus.

But new statistics suggest so few people are using the app correctly that it has almost no effect on slowing or limiting the spread of COVID-19.

That’s terrible! They should make people walk around with a big C sewn onto their clothes.