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- 9/30/2020
Group of Ontario doctors send letter urging Ford not to implement new COVID-19 lockdown
The letter comes as new modelling suggests COVID-19 case counts in the province could soon hit 1,000 per day. However, the doctors noted the shifting age demographics coming through in the latest numbers as once reason to take a different approach. - 9/30/2020
Do pharmacists want to perform COVID-19 testing?
Survey show some hesitancy, however there are ways to mitigate common concerns. - 9/30/2020
Fibristal voluntarily withdrawn in Canada due to risk of serious liver injury
Allergan withdraws and recalls uterine fibroid drug ulipristal acetate in Canada due to rare cases of severe liver injury requiring liver transplantation - 9/29/2020
In the background of photographs
Every photo has a background. It holds the details hiding behind the main attraction: people walking by, engaged in their own conversations; piles of mail that have not been tidied; dishes in a sink; other people’s beach towels; storefronts and parking meters. These are the parts of a photograph you did not intend to capture, the accidental participants in your memory. This is the place where I exist. - 9/29/2020
OMA urges government to mobilize rapid response teams to contain local flare-ups
"Mobile rapid response teams will place skills and equipment where they are most needed, while allowing capacity within the system to address the backlog of patient services and better prepare for the flu season," said OMA president Dr. Samantha Hill. - 9/29/2020
Ontario could hit 1,000 daily COVID-19 cases in weeks according to modelling
New projections show a recent upward trajectory in COVID-19, with Ontario's cases currently doubling every 10 to 12 days. - 9/29/2020
COVID-19 cases rising in Indigenous communities
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Indigenous communities have been facing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases during the last few weeks. Miller says 673 COVID-19 cases have been reported in First Nations communities in all, and about 130 of them are active cases now. - 9/29/2020
Walmart in US piloting drone delivery of home COVID-19 tests
The trial deliveries kicked off on September 22 in Las Vegas, with plans for deliveries to begin in Cheektowaga, NY in October.