From throwing the kitchen sink at them to scientific analysis separating hype from hope in treating COVID-19
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Posted: Feb 05, 2021 3:57 PM ET | Last Updated: February 5
A nurse tends to a patient infected with COVID-19. The science of treating COVID-19 has come a long way in a year.(Georges Gobet / AFP via Getty Images) comments
Quirks and Quarks17:28Treating COVID-19 one year in: what have we learned?
When COVID-19 hit a little over a year ago, we really had no idea what we were facing. Hospitals were filling up. Doctors were faced with patients in critical condition, with no really good understanding of the disease or how to fight it.
We must never go back to normal - changing for the climate is now
By Shepparton News
We need to change the way we live: Intensifying climate change is driving Australia s escalating bushfire threat, creating longer and more dangerous fire seasons than ever before, according to the Climate Council.
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News of a Sydney outbreak of COVID-19 and a threat of border closures sent me hurrying toward Queensland.
A few things are wrong with this story. First, if I really cared about how my driving from Shepparton to Queensland would worsen the climate crisis, I wouldn’t be on the road at all; and second, central NSW, where I was when the news broke, is a long way from the Sydney COVID-19 hotspot.
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TORONTO In order to convince everyone in racialized communities to get the COVID-19 vaccine, experts are warning officials not to ignore the racist elephant in the room anymore.
High-profile racist incidents and damning reports involving racialized patients have deepened mistrust for some in Black, Indigenous and communities of colour, experts told CTVNews.ca. And this in part, has led to vaccine hesitancy defined by the World Health Organization as people purposely delaying receiving available vaccines. To get ahead of this, experts are urging federal and provincial public health officials to better target messaging and approach to specific groups (including those with disabilities) because they said the approach right now isn t cutting it.