Ontario is reporting 85 more deaths linked to COVID-19 over the past seven days as the province's top doctor says there is ample supply of the Omicron-targeted vaccine, even for those not eligible for the shot until later this month.
Ron Prickett has spent days in excruciating pain on a stretcher in a small-town hospital's hallway, waiting for a bed to open in London, Ont., so surgeons can repair his shattered leg. 'What century is this? This is insane,' the 76-year-old says of a health system in turmoil.
A team consisting of experts from different fields, including medical statisticians and a medical anthropologist, has rebutted a recent article published in a Canadian medical journal that tries to justify the use of COVID-19 vaccine mandates by claiming that a mathematical model shows that unvaccinated people increase the risk of infection among the vaccinated.