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How many COVID-19 vaccines can Ontario administer per day? We did the math
Ontario's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has reached a crucial moment, with more supply arriving every week and the province saying it's on track to administer at least one dose to 65 per cent of adults by the end of May. But three weeks…
Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday
The latest: Manitoba saw its highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases in months on Thursday, as its number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations continued to grow. The province reported 363 new cases and four additional deaths.…
Edmonton woman who died of vaccine-induced blood clot was turned away from ER, friend says
The first Albertan to die from a rare blood clot condition linked to a COVID-19 vaccine was turned away from an Edmonton hospital two days before her death, a family friend says. Lisa Stonehouse, 52, died Saturday at the University of…
Ontario vowed to investigate horrific deaths in long-term care. Now it says that didn’t…
Nearly one year ago, as the first detailed picture emerged of the true scale of the horror faced by residents of Ontario's long-term care system during the pandemic, a visibly emotional Premier Doug Ford vowed: "There's going to be…
Top Democrat tells Biden administration: Get to work reopening border with Canada
This item is part of Watching Washington, a regular dispatch from CBC News correspondents reporting on U.S. politics and developments that affect Canadians. What's new There's new political muscle in the United States pushing for a…
Vaccine etiquette: What’s safe to ask others and what’s off the table
The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has provided hope that there will soon be a return to something closer to what we remember as being "normal." But with the shot has come a whole new set of experiences and dilemmas. What kinds of things…
Doctors make life-and-death decisions as India’s battle against COVID-19 rages on
Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn't even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him…
More Canadians hospitalized from substance use since pandemic started, report finds
More Canadians have ended up in the hospital after using substances like opioids, alcohol and stimulants during the pandemic than they have in years past. In the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to September 2020), as…
U.S. supports waiving intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, a shift that puts the U.S. alongside many in the developing world who…
Moderna booster increases antibodies against COVID-19 variants, early trials show
Early human trial data shows that a third dose of either Moderna's current COVID-19 shot or an experimental new vaccine candidate increases immunity against variants of the virus behind COVID-19 first found in Brazil and South Africa,…
