Following weeks of urging the Ontario government reinstate some COVID-19 measures during a sixth wave, three top doctors have written the province’s chief medical officer of health to ask that mandatory masking be reinstated in all indoor settings.Mandatory mask wearing in indoor settings is the focus of a letter from Medical officers of health in…
Diagnosed with COVID-19 last summer and soon admitted to hospital, Peter Simard of Gatineau, Que., thought he was going to die, and so did his doctors. Although he was put in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, his family never gave up hope for a miracle. After nearly nine months of hospitals and…
Ontario government’s medical advisers share their views on delivering guidance about the pandemic’s projected path, while knowing the decisions about public health measures are ultimately not theirs to make.
The moment every health-care worker dreads is drawing perilously near in Ontario — when a lack of ICU beds means doctors will have to decide who gets potentially life-saving care and who doesn’t.A health-care worker cares for a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital. A number of Ontario medical professionals fear…
A group of Alberta doctors say the province must enforce a circuit-breaker style lockdown of the economy or risk rising death tolls and a dangerous strain on frontline health care during the third wave of COVID-19. The Calgary and Area Medical Staff Society and the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association issued called for a shutdown during…
Scott Pelley reports from hospitals in New York City, the new epicenter for COVID-19. Doctors describe how some patients with the disease…
Health experts are saying it is important that pregnant women and women expecting to be pregnant receive COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Frank Chervenak,…
As many Americans wait desperately for their chance to get the COVID vaccine, there are accusations that some wealthy and well-connected people…
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, doctors in Quebec and Ontario are conducting what one physician called “dry runs” and using triage guidelines to prepare for the possibility that they may have to decide who gets access to life-saving treatment when the demand exceeds capacity.With hospitals in Montreal under strain from COVID-19, doctors in Quebec…