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The agency's FluWatch report says Canada has now entered a flu epidemic, which is declared most years after the threshold of a 5% positivity rate is surpassed.

Premier Danielle Smith announced on her first day in office a month ago that Dr. Hinshaw would be replaced.

Industry experts say there is a growing list of medications that are running low or out of stock.

Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says the first signs of supply issues arose in April but it wasn't until August that companies warned their efforts to increase supplies were failing.

Coming up on Wednesday Nov, 23, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EST, join pharmacist Mike Boivin as he leads a free webinar on COPD. 

With the final federal public-health restrictions having been lifted in September, NDP health critic Don Davies said it's about time for the government to look back at whether appropriate actions were taken to manage the crisis.

Husband-and-wife pharmacists Vu Nguyen and Nhu (Vivian) Huynh put patients at risk when they gave them flu vaccines that had been misappropriated and transported 'in a manner that had the potential to break the cold chain,' according to the Ontario College of Pharmacists.

Dr. Kieran Moore made the recommendation Monday as part of an update on the pediatric respiratory virus season.