Posted: Apr 28, 2021 10:20 AM ET | Last Updated: April 28
A man holds up a sign as a group advocating for provincially mandated paid sick days for workers participates in a die-in rally outside Queens Park earlier this year. The proposed Ontario COVID-19 Worker Protection Benefit Program will pay up to $200 per day, and will be retroactive to April 19. (Cole Burston/The Canadian Press)
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Ottawa pharmacies say they’re struggling to keep up with surging demand for COVID-19 vaccine appointments as their supplies of AstraZeneca doses dwindle and waitlists at some locations creep into the thousands.
Rahim Dhalla, owner of Hybrid Pharm in Westboro, says his store has already run out of the 200 doses it received last week after the provincial government announced it was expanding eligibility for vaccinations at pharmacies to those 40 or older.
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BARRIE, ONT. While COVID-19 cases are showing signs of decline in Simcoe-Muskoka, a respected Stayner doctor said this may be one of the worst weeks yet. Dr. Sohail Gandhi, past president of the Ontario Medical Association, says it is too soon for him to tell if there are truly signs of optimism coming from recent data. Because serious symptoms often lag up to two weeks after initial infection, Dr. Gandhi said hospitalizations and admissions into the ICU are rising. This week, I m quite concerned because we may have to bring in the triage protocol, Gandhi says. That s a terrible name. That name has been put on to convey some sort of medical authority to it. What we re talking about is we re talking about rationing health-care.
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Posted: Apr 27, 2021 8:07 AM ET | Last Updated: April 27
Natalie Vanderhyden-Steaman gets her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic run by Humber River Hospital in Toronto.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
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