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Ontario’s advisory panel of top epidemiologists has come out in favour of asymptomatic surveillance testing using rapid antigen tests for basically all elementary school students, especially in areas of the province where COVID-19 is especially prevalent.

Ontario’s advisory panel of top epidemiologists has come out in favour of asymptomatic surveillance testing using rapid antigen tests for basically all elementary school students, especially in areas of the province where COVID-19 is especially prevalent.

Dr. Barry Nathanson says he finds that most patients admitted to the hospital are unvaccinated, with some unconvinced the virus exists.

The travel history of the five Omicron cases in Canada, four of which are in Ontario and one in Quebec, suggests that the variant has been spreading widely throughout Africa for some time. All five, none of whom are related, returned from Nigeria via Montreal.

Ontario will need to use public health measures to mitigate influxes of critically ill patients over the coming months and protect a healthcare system that is now struggling with worsening staffing shortages.

Ontario will need to use public health measures to “mitigate influxes” of critically ill patients over the coming months and protect a healthcare system that is now struggling with “worsening staffing shortages” and “worker burnout,” a new report prepared by the group of scientists advising the Ford government argues.

Until this areas infection rates drop, she must put safety steps in place to limit the spread of COVID-19

It is clear Premier Doug Ford won’t make the hard decisions and is leaving it up to medical officers of health, local hospitals, individual businesses and corporations to do it, says health columnist Dr. Peter Zalan

The province reported 563 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, the highest daily case count in about a month

The Ontario government’s decision not to require health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 won’t change that requirement at Quinte Health Care.