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Alberta's top doctor says Omicron is spreading through the air with far greater frequency than previous variants, prompting her to recommend upgraded masks.
Alaba Idowu travels to Nigeria every second month or so from Calgary because he runs a business there. Each time he travels he takes five COVID-19 tests that totals 25 in his last five trips. He's fully-vaccinated and hasn't tested positive once.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi visits a seniors home in Calgary on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Nenshi says it's the "height of insanity" that Alberta is moving ahead with removing almost all of its remaining COVID-19 public health orders. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh CALGARY – Alberta’s health minister says it was the idea of the province’s chief medical health officer to end isolation requirements for those who test positive for COVID-19 or who have been in close contact with someone who has. Tyler Shandro said Dr. Deena Hinshaw came to the government with the plan. He said the governm...
"It came from Dr. Hinshaw," Shandro said Thursday when asked about the province's strategy. "This is work that was developed by those who are in public health." He acknowledged concerns about moving forward so quickly. "We have many different opinions in the medical community and that’s to be expected and that’s encouraged." He also said that while Alberta is alone in Canada in the approach, others will eventually follow suit. "We are leading the way in moving to the endemic (phase of the COVID-19) response. We've led the way throughout in the response to the pandemic quite frankly."
CALGARY -- When Albertans started receiving their COVID-19 vaccinations about seven months ago doctors didn't anticipate the possibility that fully-vaccinated people might ever have problems travelling and yet, that is happening. Dr. Daniel Gregson is an associate professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary specializing in infectious disease and microbiology who says health officials didn't know what was going to happen with vaccines. "We knew that we were going to have different vaccines that were going to be effective," said Gregson. "We didn't anticipate...