Young people and people with pre-existing medical conditions are having a particularly hard time, with 60% and 61% reporting a decline in mental health, respectively.
“China eats weird animals disease”
2 Ontario LTC operators got $157M in COVID-19 aid. They also paid $74M to shareholders
Two of the largest long-term care providers in the Toronto area have received more than $157 million in federal and provincial COVID-19 relief while also paying out tens of millions of dollars in dividends to their shareholders.
What Canadians can expect now that Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been approved
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Dec. 7 that up to 249,000 doses of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be ready before the end of the year following approval from Health Canada. That means about 125,000 people will be vaccinated. However, over the first few months during the first stage of the rollout, officials estimate that about three million Canadians could be inoculated.
The vaccines will be distributed to jurisdictions on a per-capita basis, so each province will receive vaccine doses in numbers proportionate to their share of the population.
Quebec will be first.
Anti-Lockdown Medical Experts Rip Fauci Over ‘Erroneous Statements’ On Pandemic, Lockdowns
Two of the doctors behind The Great Barrington Declaration, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, appeared on the Monday episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show” hosted by independent journalist and commentator Megyn Kelly. Bhattacharya and Kulldorff responded to Fauci’s criticisms of their petition with some of their own, asserting that the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has damaged public faith in medical experts through “erroneous statements” about the pandemic and lockdowns.
Canadians feel safer shopping at small businesses: poll
According to a new poll by Maru/Matchbox, 72% of Canadians say they feel more protected from the coronavirus by shopping at small businesses, compared to chains like Walmart or Costco.
Furthermore, 93% of respondents say governments should not create restrictions that shut down small businesses.
Two-Thirds Of California Residents Get Texts From State To Remain Home
Around 27 million residents, roughly two-thirds of the state’s population, received the message urging people to stay inside except for essential activities, according to CNN. Newsom on Thursday issued a mandate which shutters businesses and creates a mandatory stay-at-home order for localities where intensive care unit capacity drops below 15%, the New York Times reported.
Russia Warns Citizens Not To Drink Alcohol For Six Weeks After COVID-19 Vaccine
Russians are being asked to make the ultimate sacrifice; no drinking alcohol for six weeks after taking the country’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Biden Annouces He Will Sign ‘Executive Order to Require Masks Everywhere’ He Can
So apparently Joe Biden has not been around these past nine months because he thinks masks will magically work during the first 100 days of his administration.
Canada the biggest hoarder of COVID-19 vaccine pre-orders in First World, NGOs say
Dozens of poor nations could miss getting the COVID-19 vaccine next year because rich countries have hoarded far more than they need, the People’s Vaccine Alliance says.
Two Alberta churches launch constitutional challenge of public health orders
The lawsuit, which was filed by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), names Heights Baptist Church and Northside Baptist Church as the two applicants. The churches are located in Medicine Hat and Calgary, respectively.
According to the JCCF, the government violated the following rights of churchgoers by implementing coronavirus-related lockdown orders: the right to peaceful assembly, the right to travel, the right to conduct a business to earn a living, the right to visit family and friends and the right to peaceful assembly.
Health Canada approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
The department announced the approval Wednesday. Public health and government officials will hold a briefing to discuss details of the vaccine rollout plan at 1 p.m. ET in Ottawa.
ANOTHER Travel Company Exec. Says Vaccine Passports Are Coming
The president of travel company Acendas, Brent Blake, told Fox 4 News that “Traveler safety, to me, is top-of-the-line for everybody. And in order to do that, there’s going to be some requirements to be able to travel.”
Alert From UK: Regulators Now Preventing People With “Significant History Of Allergic Reactions” From Taking Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
The first rollout of the first clinically approved COVID-19 vaccine just hit its first speedbump. British health regulators issued a warning today after two health-care workers developed a serious allergic reaction to the Pfizer vaccine. They are now checking histories on patients before administering the vaccine, and for the moment will not vaccinate those with a “significant history” of allergic reactions.
Teen Maine Boy Feeling Isolated From Restrictions Commits Suicide. Mother: ‘This Remote Learning Is Crap’
Spencer Smith, a sophomore at Brunswick High School, felt increasingly isolated as a result of distance learning. He had dreams of playing lineman on the Brunswick High School football team, but those hopes were dashed when it was replaced by flag football.