How rugby prepared Dr. Strang for Nova Scotia s COVID-19 pandemic
Long before coming to prominence as a medical administrator, Dr. Robert Strang was an accomplished athlete. He says the lessons he learned on the field have been invaluable in navigating the pandemic.
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Sunday, December 27 click to enlarge The Coast Sundays are generally quiet. Sundays of a holiday weekend should be especially so. And yet here we are, oddly busy with three new cases of COVID-19. All are linked to close contacts or travel outside of Atlantic Canada, says the province, which is some sort of consolation. No immediate threat of uncontrolled community spread is always consolation.
Friday & Saturday, December 25 & 26
Two days reported as one click to enlarge Map of COVID-19 cases reported in Nova Scotia as of December 25/26, 2020. Legend here. The Coast The province took the Christmas holiday w
Care home administrator questions decision to ease visitor restrictions in N.S.
An administrator at a long-term care home in Dartmouth, N.S., says he s confused and concerned about Nova Scotia s decision to ease visitor restrictions just days before Christmas.
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From virtual visits to emailed test results, COVID-19 has modernized health care in Nova Scotia
From the outside looking in, you wouldn t think the pandemic should have such an impact on normal health-care operations. But for those on the inside, there has been a tectonic shift in the way services are planned for and how they ve been delivered since last March.
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We ve seen more change in health-care delivery in the last six months than in the last 20 years
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
The need for physical distancing during the pandemic gave the province a push toward telemedicine.(Steve Bruce/CBC)