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May 10, 2021 | 8:48 AM
A conversation with Dr. Sandra Allison about Island Health’s initiative aimed at preventing overdose deaths among within Vancouver Island Health Authority’s region. This campaign targets men who are using drugs alone and encourages them to follow safe use methods, and if they are ready recovery options.
Canada must aim at stamping out COVID-19 spread: An open letter from doctors and scientists
Adopting a strategy of maximum infection suppression early in this epidemic such as was seen in Australia, Taiwan and the Atlantic bubble might have saved 21,000 Canadian lives
April 30, 2021 A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as health-care staff provide life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully. (Nathan Denette/CP)
The authors of this commentary/opinion article are physicians and scientists with backgrounds in infectious diseases, critical care medicine and other health disciplines (details at bottom). Among them are internationally recognized university professors, clinician-researchers, former and current medical school department/sectional chairs
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VICTORIA During the NDP government in the 1990s, Mike Farnworth earned the nickname the “janitor” because he was routinely called on to clean up other people’s messes.
Local government, economic development, gambling … several times he was handed cabinet portfolios where a predecessor had stumbled.
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Farnworth was pressed into cleanup service for the current government this week. The assignment being to clarify the third-wave-of-the-pandemic travel restrictions announced Monday by Premier John Horgan.
Non-essential Travel Prohibited Between Three Provincial Zones
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Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth is using his authority under the Emergency Program Act to prohibit non-essential travel between three regional zones in BC.
The order applies to everyone in the province, including non-essential travelers from outside the province.
The regional zones are Vancouver Island Health Authority, the area covered by the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley Health Authorities, and the region encompassed by the Northern and Interior Health Authorities.
The province says the order puts legal limits only on travel between these regional zones.
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The Tin Wis resort in Tofino is waiting with the rest of B.C. to learn the details of the provincial government’s new travel ban set to begin Friday. And if the emergency order limits guests to locals, the resort may have to close.
The sprawling West Coast resort, owned by the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, has been restricting leisure travel guests to those who live on Vancouver Island to follow provincial guidelines and have been operating at about two-thirds capacity.
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