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- 9/6/2020
Symptoms checklist: COVID-19, cold and flu
CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca has compiled a chart that quickly compares the symptoms of COVID-19, cold and influenza - 9/6/2020
Advocacy for seniors includes optimizing immunizations
The numbers for COVID-19 and influenza expose the shortcomings and limitations in how we care for aging adults in our country. It is time we stand up and advocate for improving and protecting seniors’ health. - 9/3/2020
All things can be accomplished
- 9/2/2020
Neighbourhood Pharmacies calls for all provinces to allow pharmacists to do asymptomatic testing for COVID-19
So far, asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 by pharmacists is only available in Alberta, however, Ontario pharmacists are expected to gain authority to do the testing soon. - 9/2/2020
Parents, educators push for outdoor learning experiments to address COVID fears
The ongoing pandemic has put masks and sanitizers on back-to-school shopping lists, but several parents, teachers and school staff are hunting for even more unusual materials: cut logs for the schoolyard, tarps to shield soccer pitches from sun and rain, and cheap yoga mats for outdoor seating. With many school plans failing to promise smaller class sizes and epidemiologists noting less infection risk outdoors, an ardent movement of teachers, parents and sympathetic principals are urgently pursuing ambitious outdoor learning plans they hope can be incorporated into the curriculum.