Patient Lifestyle

The volume of calls to Ottawa's COVID-19 help line have been doubling by the day and non-nursing staff have had to be called in to help.

Until now, the province had merely recommended that visitors to long-term care homes be screened for symptoms and risk factors for COVID-19, such as recent international travel

Doctors have been getting conflicting information about how to handle this pandemic, and PHO has failed to clarify the confusion

Focuses on the proportion of patients attaining meaningful reductions in pain with various treatment options

Human trials of a vaccine could begin as soon as July or August after being approved by appropriate health agencies

If symptoms aren't obvious and past contact with an infected person is not clear, when should someone self-isolate and how is that done

Although the public has been directed to call public health hotlines instead of going to the emergency department, the hotlines often send them to the hospital anyway