Posted: Jan 12, 2021 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 12
The pandemic has hit Ontario s homeless hard, resulting in a higher rate of hospitalization and death. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
A study published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is painting a stark picture of how COVID-19 has impacted Ontario s homeless population.
Following nearly 30,000 people with a recent history of homelessness over a six-month period, the researchers found that they were more likely to become infected with the novel coronavirus, be hospitalized, experience complications, and die. Individuals recently homeless were over 20 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19, over 10 times more likely to receive intensive care, and they were over five times more likely to die within 21 days of a positive test, said principal author Lucie Richard in an interview with CBC Toronto.
Non-frontline staff at Toronto hospitals reportedly receiving COVID-19 vaccine
by Laura Carney
Michael Garron Hospital on December 10 2020. Rylan Vallee/CityNews
Some questions are now being raised after Toronto hospital staff who don’t directly deal with patients have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
A leaked email from the University Health Network on Sunday, seen by the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail, revealed it had secured a limited number of vaccines from Newmarket’s Southlake Regional Health Centre and was offering them to all staff, including researchers.
The Pfizer COVID-19 shot must be used within six hours of being thawed and prepared, sometimes leaving hospitals to scramble to find recipients when there are extra doses, which is reportedly what happened in Newmarket.
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Stiffness in our tissues causes tension in our cells. Research from the Buck Institute, the University Health Network (University of Toronto), Stanford University, and the University of Alberta shows that stiffness impacts the innate immune system by upping its metabolism. The findings suggest the cellular tension likely sets off an inflammatory loop that contributes to the development of chronic diseases of aging. Publishing in
Cell Reports, Buck Associate Professor Dan Winer, MD, and colleagues present an emerging way of looking at how the immune system functions, possibilities for new immunotherapeutics, and a call for scientists to reconsider the way they do research.
TORONTO The head of a Toronto cardiac centre says the pandemic is compounding pre-existing emotional and mental health pressures on doctors, nurses and other health-care staff, describing their risk of burnout as "a public health crisis." Dr.