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- 9/2/2020
Volunteering during COVID-19 times
- 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. - 9/2/2020
Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine now approved for use in males 9-45 years of age
Helps protect against 9 types of HPV, including those that cause anal cancer, genital warts, and abnormal and precancerous anal lesions - 9/2/2020
Toronto woman to continue pressing late mom's human rights case
Veronica Gerber was set to go before Ontario's human rights tribunal on Monday in a bid to see her mother more often during the COVID-19 pandemic. But three days before the case was to be heard, Dorothea Gerber, 82, died at the Toronto long-term care facility where she had lived for more than a decade. Veronica Gerber had been scheduled to appear before the tribunal seeking an interim order to restore her visitation rights to their pre-pandemic status. - 9/2/2020
Ford defends Ontario's chief medical officer as calls for his removal grow louder
Ontario's chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams has been under fire recently but the CBC reported that provincial Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott are standing behind him. "I have all the confidence in the world in Dr. Williams and his whole entire team," Ford said recently. - 9/2/2020
Planning for flu season during COVID-19
With demand for the influenza vaccine expected to be higher than usual this year, physicians and community pharmacists are getting ready to meet the challenge of delivering flu shots during the pandemic. - 9/1/2020
Waiting for referrals to improve
Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia, head of Ontario’s Health Centre of Excellence, talks about how we can shorten wait times and improve the referral process. - 9/1/2020
Mississauga pharmacist waits for coverage of costly life-changing drug
Although Ontario is funding the drug for some adults in similar situation, Joseph Beshay can't get assistance for coverage of Spinraza.