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Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case numbers will fall to 1,000 per day in early June and stay there for a month if reopening begins on June 2, but will fall to just a few hundred by the end of July if reopening is delayed to June 16, new modelling data suggests.

Dr. Ben Chan remembers hearing the preliminary reports back in March of blood clots appearing in a handful of European recipients of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Science on COVID, VITT constantly changing: A look at how doctors keep up Poll Independent A vial of AstraZeneca vaccine is seen at a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, April 22, 2021. Dr. Ben Chan remembers hearing the preliminary reports back in March of blood clots appearing in a handful of European recipients of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Dr. Ben Chan remembers hearing the preliminary reports back in March of blood cl...

Science on COVID, VITT constantly changing: A look at how doctors keep up by Melissa Couto Zuber, The Canadian Press Posted May 16, 2021 8:00 am EDT Last Updated May 16, 2021 at 8:14 am EDT A vial of AstraZeneca vaccine is seen at a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, April 22, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Dr. Ben Chan remembers hearing the preliminary reports back in March of blood clots appearing in a handful of European recipients of the Oxford-AstraZeneca ...

  Dr. Ben Chan remembers hearing the preliminary reports back in March of blood clots appearing in a handful of European recipients of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The global health expert with the University of Toronto followed the developments closely over ensuing weeks as researchers went from examining what was going on to determining how to diagnose and treat it. The disorder, characterized by low platelet counts, is now called vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, o...

"Premier Ford needs to reverse course and open safe outdoor recreation facilities." In a statement Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said he has consistently called on the Premier to follow the science, to listen to and act on the advice from the science advisory team.  "The science team has put out what will work and what wont work. What it specially said will not work for our policies that discourage safe outdoor activity will not limit the spread of COVID-19 and will disproportionate...

Last Updated Thursday, April 29, 2021 5:13PM EDT Every adult in Ontario will be able to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment through the provincial portal by around May 24, with a dramatic increase in anticipated supply also allowing them to divert 50 per cent of all incoming doses to hot spot neighbourhoods for two weeks in May. Health bureaucrats told reporters on background on Thursday that the age eligibility for using the provincial booking system will drop to 55+ on Frid...

Jones replied, “We wanted to make sure that the modelling was actually showing up in our hospitals.” This was a curious answer at the heart of the slow, ineffective government responses to the pandemic. It is also why the so-called “balanced response” advocated by those seeking to calibrate public health responses against real-time data was always doomed to fail. The problem, simply, is exponential growth. Most don’t understand it. In a pandemic, that failure of understanding is our u...

Ontario’s Chaotic Third Wave: A Timeline Rushed decisions, overstretched hospitals and a scramble for vaccines: how the Doug Ford government fumbled its way into the province’s third wave. Fatima Syed Updated (Screengrab: Twitter/@fordnation) On February 11, one of Ontario’s top doctors gave us a bleak picture of the province’s COVID future. Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical...

iPolitics By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on Apr 29, 2021 5:04pm Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton, pictured at a news conference in June 2020, announced a paid sick leave program on Wednesday. (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star) Ontario’s legislature passed three days of paid sick leave on Thursday, while opposition parties promised to keep fighting for at least 10 paid days of leave. The new benefit provides $200 for up to three days that a worker is off sick. The government ...