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The Invista Centre in Kingston and the Strathcona Paper Centre in Napanee will house mass immunization clinics in the Kingston region when adequate vaccine supply becomes available, the local public health unit says.
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health unveiled its current vaccine strategy for the region in a news release Tuesday afternoon.
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“With multiple stakeholders and partners working together, immunizations will proceed using several clinic approaches that will help to meet Ontario’s three-phased COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan,” the news release said. “In this plan, the province has set the order in which each priority population is vaccinated.”
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Newfoundland and Labrador is warning its rotational workers of outbreaks at out-of-province sites, including 11 Alberta oilsands operations.
The GraceLife Church located just outside of Edmonton is continuing to hold in-person services despite a closure order.
An Alberta public health specialist says restaurants are taking on a lot of risk for themselves and customers as new variants spread.
Alberta reported 305 new cases and 15 new deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday.
The border testing pilot at the Calgary International Airport will be suspended when the new federal testing requirements for travellers come into effect on Monday.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief electoral officer is calling for the province’s election to be delayed and Ontario officials are to decide whether to cancel March break as provinces mull ways to lessen the spread of COVID-19.
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Alberta has slogged through the COVID pandemic, not getting everything perfect, but generally getting more right than wrong.
What we’re doing now isn’t broken, so there’s no need for any radical fix, such as suddenly muzzling the free speech of medical experts and politicians who are out of step with the government’s approach.
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Alberta had a nasty outbreak in December that severely tested nurses, doctors and hospitals, but hospitalizations are now dropping. Public schools have been open again for a month. Restaurants and personal care businesses are cautiously reopening.
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For centuries, we have treated our physical health needs with ever-growing awareness of how to do so effectively. Mental health has also slowly entered the mainstream purview. But we still have a painfully long way to go in our understanding of its impact on overall health and how to support those with mental health struggles.
The pandemic and the public health strategies chosen to address it will, hopefully, illuminate the need to include another essential component in our understanding of overall health: Social health.
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