Seniors aged 80 and older, nursing home residents, and seniors in other group settings will soon be eligible for a fourth dose of vaccine to help reduce the impact of COVID-19. Nova Scotia Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson said more details will be available in the coming days, adding “we will be be quick […]
Here are the people who protested outside Dr. Strang’s house
Morning File, Friday, March 25, 2022
News 1. COVID The pandemic is far from over. In the week from March 16 to March 22, 13 people died from COVID in Nova Scotia. While the death count is at near-record levels for Nova Scotia, the provincial reporting of deaths has changed. From the start of the pandemic until the beginning of January […]
Exploiting pandemic measures for profit
Morning File, Tuesday, March 22, 2022
News 1. You mean MLAs aren’t supposed to be corporate shills? Last week, it came to Joan Baxter’s attention that there was a Friends of New Northern Pulp sign up at MLA Pat Dunn’s constituency office. Dunn is the MLA for Pictou Centre and minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Baxter wondered whether this was […]
What it means to live with COVID
"We need to be very careful about letting down our guard too much at this point," says Dr. Scott Halperin, professor of pediatrics and microbiology and immunology at Dalhousie University and infectious disease at the IWK Health Centre.
On Monday, children across Nova Scotia are set to return to their schools after this week’s March Break. While some restrictions will remain in place for the health care system, students will be re-entering classrooms on the same day that the province enters Phase 3 of its reopening plan. Public health and school public health […]
Nova Scotia has abandoned meaningful COVID reporting
There’s been a months-long degradation of COVID reporting in Nova Scotia. Through November 2021, the data provided were relatively fulsome, and as a result I was able to produced quite detailed presentation of that data, which included: • the number of new cases by health zone, age cohort, and gender • deaths by health zone, […]
Life goes on, but at what cost?
Morning File, Wednesday, March 9, 2022
News 1. Close calls with a killer On a spring evening back in 2020, Dave Brown was falling asleep on the couch and decided to turn in. Before heading to bed, he thought he’d go have a smoke on his balcony. When he stepped out, he noticed an odd-looking police car parked across the road. […]
People are bigger assholes than ever
Morning File, Tuesday, March 8, 2022
News 1. Affordable housing in New Glasgow A former inn in New Glasgow will be turned into 36 affordable housing units. On Tuesday, Zane Woodford spoke with Dianne Kelderman, president and CEO of Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, which announced on Monday that it bought the Tara Inn on East River Road in New Glasgow. Kelderman […]
Nova Scotia has the highest weekly COVID death count of the entire pandemic
跳转到部分本文简介:概述牛痘tion Testing Nova Scotia is reporting four new COVID deaths today (Friday, March 4). The deceased are: • a man in his 50s, Northern Zone • a man in his 70s, Eastern Zone • a man in his 80s, Northern Zone • a man in his 80s, Western […]
Researcher in NB launching study to better understand long-COVID in Canadian patients
"What we found out from them is in terms of symptoms, long-COVID in Canadians looks like long-COVID everywhere else," says Vett Lloyd about results from study's first phase.
As the number of people struggling with long-term COVID complications grows, a New Brunswick researcher is launching a study to better understand the experiences of Canadian patients in the pandemic’s most recent waves. Last year, Mount Allison University biology professor and researcher Vett Lloyd began the first phase of her national study looking at the […]
3 COVID deaths, 329 COVID-related hospitalizations, 421 new cases reported in Nova Scotia on March 3
跳转到部分本文简介:概述牛痘tion Testing Nova Scotia is reporting three new COVID deaths today (Thursday, March 3). The deceased are: • two men in their 70s who lived in the Eastern Zone • one man in his 80s who lived in the Central Zone Additionally, the province is reporting a total […]
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