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Canada's ability to track new and existing variants is in jeopardy with testing access still heavily restricted — leaving us vulnerable to pandemic whiplash from new and existing variants.

The incidence of the virus found through wastewater testing is likely a better indicator, a Western research chair says.

The number of people infected with COVID-19 is now an ongoing mystery, as the highly infectious Omicron variant overwhelms testing capacity across the country.

Wastewater testing in London is showing unexpectedly lower levels of virus despite an Omicron surge that drove the local and provincial case counts to new…

Officials in many jurisdictions are reporting skyrocketing case rates, stoking ever greater fear of the Mighty Omicron. Yet the breathless, wall-to-wall, MSM coverage doesn't mention that the jump in cases is very likely simply due to the testing...

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For three weeks this summer, scientist Hector Rangel collected samples from wastewater in Caracas, Venezuela. His counterpart in Kampala, Uganda, Brian...

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, what have we learned? © Provided by Global News Close up of a young woman getting vaccinated On March 11, the world marked a grim milestone: the anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. For many, the anniversary takes sombre tone. One full year isolated from friends and loved ones. One full year out of work. One full year of life as we know it, thrown into complete disarray. To date, more than 2.5 million people -- inclu...

Health Canada's approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in adults follows similar green lights from regulators worldwide.