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The Globe and Mail Family doctors are key to Canada’s vaccine rollout. We must include them in this vital process Vincent Lam Published January 21, 2021 Vincent Lam is the co-author of The Flu Pandemic and You . He is a practising physician, a faculty member at the University of Toronto, and the medical director of the Coderix Medical Clinic. Imagine you want to bake a lot of bread. More than 30 million loaves. Would you go to a busy baker who already produces millions of loaves? Or would you give the job to a fancy pastry chef, and tell the bread maker to wait and maybe pitch in later?

On Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2020, Erika Tabke, a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, made history by administering the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to a patient in Central Texas. The day before, UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School at UT Austin, had received the first shipment of about 3,000 doses, making UT the first

Kodiak changed its pandemic alert status from red to yellow today as the island sees its third consecutive day with no COVID-related hospitalizations and the number of daily positive cases continues to drop.  The Kodiak Emergency Services Council announced the change on Thursday, the same day Gov. Mike Dunelavy extended the state’s Public Health Disaster Emergency Declaration for another month to Feb. 14.  The change to yellow status means the customer capacity of Kodiak businesses increases from 25% to 50%. This includes retail services, bars, restaurants, religious gatherings, gr...

O n average, 3,000 Americans are dying from the coronavirus every day. A new COVID strain first identified in the United Kingdom has added to California's woes. Hospitals in Los Angeles County have been so overwhelmed that ambulances can't take some heart attack victims to the emergency room. Washington state, however, has been one of the most successful states in slowing down the spread of the coronavirus. It went from the first state to be hit with the outbreak last March to the state with the fifth-lowest total number of cases today. Yet, when it comes to the drugs that could end the...

NMSU holds COVID-19 vaccine events on campus From Staff Reports LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University hosted its first full-scale New Mexico Department of Health COVID-19 vaccination event on Jan. 8, providing space, volunteer personnel and logistical support for the distribution of more than 600 doses of the vaccine to eligible members of the community. Two additional distribution events are scheduled for later this month. The events are open only to those who have received a notification from the NMDOH that they are eligible to receive the vaccine at NMSU on the specified date. The Jan....