People in the U.K. with learning disabilities have been told they will not receive resuscitation if they contract COVID-19, according to learning disability charity Mencap.
“China eats weird animals disease”
The daunting math of Trudeau’s goal to have all willing Canadians get COVID vaccine by September
Between April 1 and Sept. 30 there are 26 weeks, meaning the provinces will have to put at least two million doses per week into the arms of Canadians.
A closer look at where $82 billion in CERB payments went at the beginning of the pandemic
Over its lifespan between late March and October of last year, the CERB paid out nearly $82 billion to 8.9 million people whose incomes crashed because they saw their hours slashed or lost their jobs entirely.
Some three million people lost their jobs in March and April as non-essential businesses were ordered closed, and 2.5 million more worked less than half their usual hours.
The data from Employment and Social Development Canada show that 6.5 million people received the $500-a-week CERB during the first four weeks it was available, or more than one in five Canadians over age 15.
What emerges from that initial wave is a largely rural-urban split, with higher proportions of populations relying on the CERB in cities compared to rural parts of the country.
Cuomo’s COVID cover-up hid nearly 1,900 NYC nursing home deaths
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cover-up of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 hid nearly 1,900 fatalities in New York City alone — with new figures sending the tally at one Queens facility skyrocketing more than 1,000 percent.
A Post analysis of the latest state Health Department data shows that 5,443 nursing home residents have been killed by the coronavirus in the Big Apple.
Pathogen Pipeline: Chinese Agents In Canada Shipped Deadly Pathogens To The Wuhan Institute Of Virology
It is “extremely unlikely” that the virus causing Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but for the World Health Organization there’s more to the story. According to WHO mouthpiece Peter Ben Emerek, the issue does not even warrant further study.
“Phew. That’s China off the hook, then,” wrote Miranda Devine of the New York Post.
Contrary to Emerek, a food safety and nutrition specialist, not a virologist, the WIV warrants plenty of further study. Consider, for example, recent revelations from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Covid ‘was circulating widely’ in China and had mutated at least 13 times before Beijing reported it to the world
The scientist who led the WHO’s Covid fact-finding mission to Wuhan has revealed the first evidence that the virus was circulating widely in China before Beijing alerted the world to its existence.
Peter Embarek said his team have discovered there were at least 13 Covid variants in Wuhan in December last year, suggesting the virus had been in the human population for some time to allow these different strains to develop.
He also revealed that up to 1,000 people in Wuhan could have been infected in early December – an estimate based on Chinese data that showed 174 severe cases of the disease.
Toronto will likely enter grey zone of province’s reopening framework next week, Tory says
Mayor John Tory says it is likely Toronto will enter the grey zone of the province’s reopening framework next week, a move which will allow many small businesses in the city to offer in-person shopping for the first time in almost three months.
“I think the likelihood of entering the grey zone is fairly high because that’s what the province wants to do is get everybody back into this framework,” he told CP24 on Monday. “But people should remember that the grey zone really doesn’t bring about a huge number of changes compared to what we are experiencing today and I think the most important thing is going to be that people continue to stay at home.”
Dependent on foreign students, Canada universities risk revenues as vaccines lag
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian universities are facing a financial crunch amid the COVID-19 crisis, as a drop in foreign enrollment and shuttered campuses dent the bottom line and the country’s slow vaccine rollout weighs on the next school year.
Public universities have become increasingly dependent on foreign students, who pay far higher tuition than domestic students, to boost their profits. International enrollment jumped 45% over the last five years, advocacy group Universities Canada said, but it fell 2.1% this year amid coronavirus restrictions.
Lots of other reasons Canadian universities are financial sink holes. The education bubble will burst in Canada. Perhaps it should be allowed to.
5 cases of variant first found in South Africa confirmed at Mississauga, Ont., condo, on-site testing ordered
Widespread testing for all residents at a condominium in Mississauga, Ont., will start on Monday after five cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa were identified at the location, Peel Public Health said in a statement Sunday night.
Health officials said they are taking this “urgent step” while community spread of the variant, known as B1351, is still low.
The proverbial monkey wrench in the re-opening plans.
The Man At The Center Of the World’s Biggest Story Has A Conflict Of Interest. Why Won’t The Media Report It?
One of the key members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team looking into where COVID-19 originated has a lengthy history suggesting he may hold a vested interest in determining the virus did not leak from a lab – and the media is hardly talking about it.
Ottawa still blocking provinces from ordering vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna: Pallister
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said the federal government’s contracts with key coronavirus vaccine suppliers like Pfizer and Moderna forbid those companies from selling in separate deals to provinces.
In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Pallister said recent comments by Procurement Minister Anita Anand that provinces are free to pursue their own deals with coronavirus vaccine suppliers are “false.”
Covid-19 pandemic: China ‘refused to give data’ to WHO team
China refused to hand over key data to the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of Covid-19, one of its members has said.
Microbiologist Dominic Dwyer told Reuters, the Wall St Journal and the New York Times the team requested raw patient data from early cases, what he called “standard practice”.
He said they only received a summary.
China has not responded to the allegation but has previously insisted it was transparent with the WHO.
New Zealand puts largest city into lockdown over three positive COVID-19 cases
New Zealand put its largest city into lockdown Sunday — after just one family tested positive for COVID-19.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the three-day lockdown for Auckland after a couple and their daughter tested positive in the nation widely hailed for virtually eliminating the spread of the contagion.
The new community cases make just four in the last three months — with the lockdown the first in New Zealand in six months.
‘Document dump’ of thousands of pages reveals federal government’s behind-the-scenes scramble on COVID-19
OTTAWA—Is it time for the federal government to name an independent review of Canada’s pandemic response?
The prime minister says no, not now, while we’re still in the midst of the crisis; there’ll be time for that later.
Yet, as Canada stares down the emergence of variants, warnings of a third wave and predictions that this is not the last global pandemic to come, figuring out where we went wrong and what we need to fix is a mammoth and pressing task.
It may be one that a minority Parliament — where opposition parties and the government vie to frame ballot questions for the next election, whenever it comes — is ill placed to tackle with the objectivity and impartiality required.
Ontario reports 981new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 981 cases of #COVID19 and over 48,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 209 new cases in Peel, 171 in York Region and 122 in Toronto.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 467,626 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 14, 2021
WARMINGTON: COVID hotels — violation of rights or necessary public safety measure?
It’s a tale of two headlines.
One is the Trudeau government drilling down on forcing returning Canadians into mandated isolation in locked hotels at their own expense. The other is the government being put on notice that doing so allegedly violates every free person’s constitutional rights.