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Biden falsely downplays dangers of COVID-19 in schools Speaking at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden made a series of patently false statements about the threat posed by COVID-19 to children and their parents. Biden’s false claims were aimed at convincing educators, students and parents to resume in-person learning, even though schools are major vectors for the spread of COVID-19. In a chilling exchange with a second grade student rightly concerned that she might catch COVID-19 and possibly infect her parents, Biden flatly lied, stating, “You’re not l...

Montreal COVID-19 school cases now rising nearly 1.5 times faster than last fall Elementary school students returned to class on Jan. 11 and those in high school on Jan. 18. During this period, a little over five weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases reached 3,989 as of Monday. Author of the article: Aaron Derfel  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021  •  February 17, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  The EMSB showed off newly installed air purifiers at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School on Jan. 11, 2021. The purifiers — which have also been installed at th...

10,000 lives lost: A closer look at the people behind Quebec's staggering pandemic death toll Benjamin Shingler, Jonathan Montpetit A selfless long-term care worker. A teenager. A young father. Thousands upon thousands of wives, husbands, grandparents, lovers, partners, friends. On Sunday, Quebec recorded 32 more deaths from COVID-19, making it the first province to cross the grim threshold of 10,000 deaths from the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. It's a staggering number that accounts for just under half of the total death toll from the pandemic in Canada. The first ...

Newfoundland and Labrador officials concerned about St. John's case spike. Quebec passes 10,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Read more: The federal government's minister in charge of procurement of vaccines says supply delays are 'largely behind us'; data so far on suicides during the pandemic affirms that it is a complex phenomenon. People pick flowers ahead of Lunar new year at a flower market in Taipei, Taiwan, (Ann Wang/Reuters) Ontario begins allowing more businesses to reopen with limited capacity Premier Doug Ford announced changes to restrictions Monday afternoon as p...

What the science really says: Closing schools is vital to containing COVID-19 As over 10,000 Chicago teachers and staff are engaged in a struggle to oppose the city’s effort to reopen public schools, the entire US media is waging a campaign to pressure educators to resume in-person schooling. Every major national newspaper in the US, regardless of its political affiliation, has over the past week published statements falsely claiming that schools are safe to reopen. These reports incorrectly assert that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared that schools are safe....