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- 5/6/2020
Feds to unveil agreements with provinces to top up essential workers' pay
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce today cost-sharing agreements with a number of provinces to top up the wages of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. - 5/6/2020
Virtual care use ignited by COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided the opportunity for Canada to go from “worst to first” in using virtual care and assessing its impact. That’s according to Dr. Sacha Bhatia, FM Hill Chair in Health Systems Solutions and the Chief Medical Innovation Officer at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and currently one of the country’s more eloquent advocates for virtual care. - 5/6/2020
Researchers ponder whether COVID-19 could be sexually transmitted
SARS-CoV-2 virus found in semen of six of 38 men hospitalized with COVID-19 - 5/6/2020
COVID-19 symptoms worsen in women after giving birth
Mild coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms may worsen rapidly in postpartum women within hours of giving birth, as illustrated by three cases published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. - 5/6/2020
Confronting the COVID-19 surgery crisis with transformational change
Single-entry models and team-based care can streamline service delivery, experts say - 5/5/2020
Pharmacists receiving short shipments as drug shortages continue
Health Canada has identified 27 drug shortages that could have a serious impact on the health system - 5/5/2020
COVID-19 burnout: Can-do attitude gives way to anxiety, despair for many
Eight weeks into Canada's coronavirus lockdown, and nerves are frayed. Anxiety is on the rise, as are calls to community distress centres