A booster shot during pregnancy bolstered protection against the Omicron variant in particular, said the study authors from the Canadian Immunization Research Network.
The organization says that about 15% of all donors in the past year had received MAID, adding that the vast majority of them—about 85%—had been diagnosed with neurodegenerative or neurological disease.
Amid a crumbling healthcare system and rising transphobia, trans and non-binary people in Ontario are facing a new challenge: reduced access to gender-affirming care.
Linda Silas, president of the 200,000-member Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, said funding must be used to ease critical shortages across hospitals and nursing homes in order to have any real impact.
