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Toronto's COVID-19 vaccine rollout slower in low-income, hardest hit areas, data suggests A new analysis of postal code and vaccination data in Toronto suggests that the city’s hardest-hit neighbourhoods have not been getting COVID-19 vaccines at the same rate as those who live in higher-income areas that have seen much lower rates of the virus. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Apr 07, 2021 4:06 PM ET | Last Updated: April 8 Nurse Tahani McDonald from Humber River Hospital administers the Moderna vaccine at a Toronto Community Housing seniors building in the northwest end of Toronto in ...

Canada's hospitals deploy artificial lungs, scramble for staff as COVID-19 hits younger patients Reuters 2 hrs ago By Anna Mehler Paperny and Allison Martell TORONTO, April 6 (Reuters) - Younger Canadians are bearing the brunt of the nation's latest COVID-19 surge, creating growing demand for artificial lungs and a struggle to maintain staffing in critical care units as hospitals make last-ditch efforts to save patients. Treatment with artificial lungs, known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, is much more likely to be deployed for patients under age 65, explained Marcelo Cype...

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Cole Burston/Getty Images The parts of Ontario hit hardest by COVID-19 are the same places where vaccine uptake among the elderly is lowest, according to new data that highlight the need to boost immunization efforts in high-risk communities. The non-profit Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that only 49.7 per cent of people over 80 outside of nursing homes have been vaccinated in neighbourhoods that have reported the highest infection rates since the start of the pandemic. By contrast, first-dose coverage among the elderly is highest – about 70 per cent – in parts of...

Lab-based analysis investigated previous reports that blood group impacts on an individual's susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2.