“China eats weird animals disease”

Achieving herd immunity against the coronavirus could require as much as 90 percent of the population to be vaccinated, Anthony Fauci said in an interview published Thursday.

Fauci, the country’s top infectious diseases expert, acknowledged in the New York Times interview that he has been incrementally raising his estimate of herd immunity numbers.

Fauci said he has been increasing the estimates in his public pronouncements because he thinks Americans are now able to handle the message that getting back to normal may take longer than anticipated, and fewer Americans are reporting being skeptical of taking a vaccine.

COVID-19 has tested the Ford government, and Premier Doug Ford has mostly risen to the challenge. Live daily updates, plans, programs, and spending: It has been the main (only) policy issue for ten months. Ford’s COVID-19 response will define his legacy.

Ontario now has 2,250 new acute care beds, which include 1,492 new ICU beds with ventilators. Spring shortages have disappeared. PPE abounds. If the mood strikes, you could bathe in alcohol hand sanitizer, and no one worries about running out of toilet paper. A massive vaccination program has just launched, and untold hundreds of millions of dollars have distracted voter anxieties.

Physicians and family members are raising the alarm over conditions at a Scarborough nursing home, claiming residents aren’t receiving enough water or medication due to a lack of staff amid surging cases of COVID-19.

Tendercare Nursing Home, located near Victoria Park and McNicoll avenues, is currently battling 109 active cases among residents and 49 cases among staff. An additional 26 residents have already died of the virus and 10 remain in hospital.

To date, no resident cases have been deemed resolved.

Is it just me or are we all beginning to realize that vast swaths of our healthcare system are a criminal racket?

I’ll write someday of my take on the palliative care segment. For now silence must rule.

The Canadian Forces has taken away the uniform of one of its members who called on military personnel to disobey orders to help in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and is now trying to release the man from the ranks.

Officer Cadet Leslie Kenderesi appeared and spoke at an anti-lockdown rally Dec. 5 in Toronto dressed in his Canadian Forces uniform. He spoke out about the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming it was a “killer.”

Canada could see ‘grotesque’ spike in coronavirus cases after holidays: expert

Public health officials and infectious disease experts are urging Canadians to limit their contacts over the holidays to avoid a potentially devastating spike in the number of cases of the novel coronavirus which continues to spread rapidly across the country.

Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, said Canadians should expect to see a “grotesque” spike in the number of COVID-19 infections after the holidays “because of family visiting.”