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Presence of BA.2.20 in Ontario doesn’t warrant significant concern: experts

COVID-19 variant have been discovered in Ontario, but experts say it doesn’t warrant significant concern.In a recent brief, Public Health Ontario says BA.2.20 represents an evolved form of the Omicron BA.2 subvariant that has been primarily growing in Ontario.It notes that the first case of BA.2.20 had a sample collection date of Feb. 14 and that there have been 996 cases confirmed in the province.Over the past four weeks, the percentage of BA.2.20 cases has remained stable, at approximately 5.5 per cent.Dr.

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Hospitals grapple with ‘historical’ staff absences, burnout amid 6th COVID wave

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations is taking a toll on health-care workers across the country.As provinces grapple with a sixth wave of the pandemic, a growing number of doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are calling in sick with COVID-19, raising concerns about the availability and quality of care for patients.Dr. Gerald Evans, infectious disease specialist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., said hospitals across the province are struggling with staffing levels, despite government officials, including Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliot, saying the province is equipped to handle the surge.

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Reinfection risk: Omicron appears to produce shorter-lived immunity, experts say

If you still haven’t been infected with COVID-19, the highly transmissible Omicron variant and BA.2 subvariant probably have you thinking you’re next in line.

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Canada headed towards 6th COVID-19 wave this spring, experts warn

COVID-19 wave, experts say, as cases and hospitalizations have started to creep back up again across the country.While average daily case counts have levelled off nationally, there continues to be regional variability across the country with several jurisdictions reporting increases, said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer in her latest weekly update on Friday.

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Testing positive weeks after a COVID-19 diagnosis: What it means for travel

Robin Ferré assumed his birthday trip to Los Angeles would go off without a hitch. He was triple vaccinated, had recovered from an assumed COVID-19 infection three weeks prior, and was armed with a negative rapid antigen test.

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Canada won’t necessarily see another COVID-19 wave, experts say

After nearly a month of decline, COVID-19 infections around the world have started to creep up again. New cases have shot up by eight per cent globally compared to the previous week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, experts are not sure Canada will see another wave even with loosened public health measures.

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Will Omicron fuel hospitalizations in Canada? Here’s what other countries tell us

Kingston, Ont., posted 154 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as its Omicron outbreak continued.

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Coronavirus: Anti-vaccine posters pop up on mailboxes in Kingston suburb

COVID-19 vaccines.“These vaccines are extraordinarily safe,” says Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Queen’s University.“The chances of having a severe reaction to the vaccine within 15 minutes is somewhere between one and three per one million doses given.

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‘Minefield’ of variants: How the California strain is different from the others

COVID-19 snakes through cities and countries, it has changed, morphed and mutated.The latest iteration of the respiratory disease making waves is one first identified in California. The Western state is now teeming with the variant, known as B.1.427/B.1.429.Its recent role in creating a heavily-mutated virus hybrid has raised eyebrows worldwide, but experts are growing increasingly concerned about its individual behaviours.Here’s what we know so far:“A lot of the variants have very common mutations,” said Gerald Evans, chair of the infectious diseases division at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.The N501Y mutation, for example, is found in the variants that arose in the U.K, South Africa and Brazil.

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Coronavirus messaging hurt by ‘stupidity’ of travelling politicians, experts worry

coronavirus pandemic is selfish and hypocritical, health experts say.The move is “tone-deaf politically,” Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, said.“I mean, to not be able to read the country, to not be able to read the mood and think somehow this was OK,” he said. “The stupidity is surprising.”Dr.

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U.K. COVID-19 variant explained

Dr. Gerald Evans explains the new strain of COVID-19 as concerns grow over the virus in Canada.

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‘No need to panic’: COVID-19 mutations unlikely to impact vaccine, experts say

viruses mutate, it’s just what they do.Scientists create a new flu vaccine every year, for instance, just to keep up.For SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the idea of a mutation is inherently scary for many people, but experts insist it’s to be expected. New variant of COVID-19 identified in Britain What that might mean for vaccine effectiveness? At this point, not much, experts say.“I don’t want people saying, ‘I’m going to wait for my vaccine because I heard about this one mutation in England,'” said Dr.

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‘Models don’t look good’: Infectious disease expert warns of possible COVID-19 surge

COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Ontario. On Monday, the province reported 1,487 new coronavirus cases, which was the 10th straight day of cases exceeding 1,000.Infectious disease specialist Dr.

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‘Exceptionally low’: Canada’s flu season drops amid coronavirus restrictions

influenza.So far this year, there have been just 17.“Influenza is way behind the eight ball here,” said Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of infectious disease in the department of medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.

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‘Models don’t look good’: Infectious disease expert warns of possible COVID-19 surge

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Gerald Evans says cases in Ontario could exceed 2,000 by mid-December.

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Rapid testing approved in Canada — but what does this mean for managing coronavirus?

COVID-19 this week, leading some to wonder what that could mean for provincial testing systems under heavy pressure.The Canadian Press asked infectious disease experts Dr. Barry Pakes, a public health physician and professor at the University of Toronto and Dr.

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Why does the coronavirus seem to cause so many different symptoms?

The major symptoms of COVID-19, according to public health authorities, are a cough, fever and difficulty breathing.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0