Governments and regulators must step up today to support a profession that's been pushed to its limit as we enter a new stage of the pandemic, say the Canadian Pharmacists Association.
It was the first case of COVID-19 to reach Pangnirtung. The Baffin Island hamlet of about 1,400 people had also been dealing with a tuberculosis outbreak since late November.
A shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Rwanda on Saturday included the billionth dose supplied via the COVAX program, the U.N. health agency said.
The authorization says the treatment is greenlit for adult patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 who are also at high risk of becoming more seriously ill.
In Canada, a conservative estimate is that long COVID has affected 100,000 to 150,000 people so far, although the studies assessing prevalence have serious methodologic flaws.
