A booster shot during pregnancy bolstered protection against the Omicron variant in particular, said the study authors from the Canadian Immunization Research Network.
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.
Review of Canadian heart failure registry shows between 19% and 93% of hospitalized patients are not being prescribed recommended therapies, despite being eligible.
As Trudeau and the provinces talk we need to be clear that increased federal health transfer payments must target the severe shortage of health professionals.
The provinces budgeted about $204 billion for healthcare in this fiscal year and the Canada Health Transfer was set at $45 billion, or about 22% of that.
