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North York dentist Dr. Diana Wong is seeing seniors who have neglected their oral health for years, some who haven’t had a cleaning or seen a dentist in a decade.

THE ISSUE: Barriers to wellnessLOCAL IMPACT: Community health centres work to break down health-care road blocks for people in low-income areas

COVID-19 exposes need for more collaborative, community-based health care Amina Zafar © CBC Adil Butt tested positive for coronavirus in the first week of December 2020 in Toronto. He chose to self-isolate longer than recommended to protect his family. When Adil Butt's body started to ache, he immediately isolated himself in a small bedroom for a month to keep his young family safe from COVID-19. The 42-year-old lives in Thorncliffe Park, a tightly knit community of apartment buildings in Toronto's east end. Neighbours have been hit hard by the coronavirus. Butt phoned to i...

COVID-19 has demonstrated the vital role of community-based health-care centres. Brazil is enduring another devastating wave of COVID-19, and politicians seem unable to help. Read more: On the anniversary of the pandemic being declared, take a jarring before-and-after look at scenes across Canada; B.C. anti-tax activist and N.L. doctor are under scrutiny for allegedly spreading COVID-19 misinformation. Demonstrators take part Thursday in a protest outside the headquarters of Moderna Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass. A day after U.S. President Joe Biden said the country would share its supply a...