VANCOUVER A UBC pilot project using rapid testing to screen for COVID-19 ended up detecting some positive cases in students who didn’t have symptoms. The university is now looking at continuing the project, and it’s not the only organization thinking of testing out the speedier screening technology. Just over 1,000 students on the UBC campus volunteered to get tested as part of the pilot project, which ran from Feb. 9 to April 23. UBC School of Nursing Professor Sabrina Wong said most lived in student residences, none of them were reporting symptoms, and some came back multiple times. “They came in because they were worried about testing to protect themselves, and then testing to protect others around them,” she said. “They were really trying to live up to their responsibility and accountability as citizens.”
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The campaign against stigmatizing drug users seems to make sense, at least on the surface.
Its easy appeal helps explains why it’s become the go-to mantra today for so many public-health officials and politicians.
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But is the public battle against stigmatizing those who use drugs and, relatedly, those who struggle with mental health, that simple? Or effective?
Could the campaign distract us from the real solutions to curbing the outrageously high number of opioid deaths in Canada? In B.C. alone, five years after a public health emergency was declared, five people each day, the vast majority male, continue to die from overdosing.
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Simon Fraser University researchers have designed a remarkably fast engine that taps into a new kind of fuel information.
The development of this engine, which converts the random jiggling of a microscopic particle into stored energy, is outlined in research published this week in the
SFU physics professor and senior author John Bechhoefer says researchers understanding of how to rapidly and efficiently convert information into work may inform the design and creation of real-world information engines.?? We wanted to find out how fast an information engine can go and how much energy it can extract, so we made one, says Bechhoefer, whose experimental group collaborated with theorists led by SFU physics professor David Sivak.
Head of Kelowna RCMP defends handling of protests opposing COVID-19 restrictions
RCMP Supt. Kara Triance is defending her force s management of recurring protests against provincial health measures to contain COVID-19 in light of a recent court ruling that she interprets as favouring people s right to protest.
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