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The Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network produced mid-season estimates of effectiveness of immunization against COVID-19and flu, hopes numbers will encourage vaccination
Dr. Kieran Moore says respiratory viruses remain in communities. Infectious disease expert Dr. Allison McGeer notes that COVID continues to take a deadly toll.
Rates of invasive, potentially deadly strep A infections were quietly rising in Canada pre-pandemic. Then, in 2023, the country hit a new record. Scientists suspect a complex set of factors could be fuelling the rise of this fearsome bacterial infection.
The end of December was likely when Toronto hit its peak for influenza season, according to Toronto Public Health's latest respiratory illness update, but COVID-19 infections are expected to stay high.
In Waterloo region, 10.9 per cent of people are up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccine boosters. Federal figures show 15 per cent of the population aged five and up had received an updated vaccine by Dec. 3.