The question of whether the Labour leader broke the rules in Durham Miners Club will come down to whether the gathering was ‘reasonably necessary’ for work or election campaigning.
Policies to stop the spread of COVID disadvantaged mothers and newborns.
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The direct effects of COVID-19 disease on pregnant women, newborns and children are acknowledged. But the indirect effects of the pandemic have been equally devastating.
The Canadian charity sector has significant social impact and is committed to providing unwavering support to every aspect of people’s lives.
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A study of 25 heritage language schools in Edmonton shows how schools met the needs of migrant and front-line workers, resisted racism and built community for immigrants.
A Shanghai refuse worker shows the strain of the month-long COVID lockdown.
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What can China do to resolve a crisis that threatens not only the health and security of its people and economy, but the future of Chinese Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping?
Before the COVID pandemic, efforts to address the challenge of limited vaccine production on the continent yielded little success.
Social media sites like Twitter have been a major source of both true and false information regarding COVID-19 vaccines.
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Jungmi Jun, University of South Carolina and Ali Zain, University of South Carolina
A team analyzed more than 21 million tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and found that negative sentiments on social media were tied to lower-than-expected vaccination rates in many nations.
Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.
Researchers can test blood samples taken for other reasons to see if patients have previously had COVID-19.
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Your blood can hold a record of past illnesses. That information can reveal how many people have had a certain infection – like 58% of Americans having had COVID-19 by the end of February 2022.
James Hammond, International Livestock Research Institute ; Dan Milner, International Livestock Research Institute , and Mark van Wijk, International Livestock Research Institute
Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
An inmate can be seen inside a segregation cell at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., in 2016.
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Jessica Evans, Toronto Metropolitan University and Linda Mussell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Solitary confinement is still a common feature of prisons across Canada and in its most populous province, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a practice that amounts to torture.
Burnout among health-care workers has implications for the whole workforce, and patients too.
People are silhouetted as they sit in a bar having a drink during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on March 30, 2022, as cases continued to climb in Ontario and around Canada after most provinces lifted various restrictions and mask mandates.
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As COVID-19 continues to evolve, surprise, disappoint and frustrate us, efforts by politicians to pretend it’s behind us is a dangerous form of gaslighting that will deepen societal divisions.
Over 800 sites across the US report coronavirus data from sewage to the CDC. Here’s how this kind of surveillance system works and what it can and can’t tell you.
Dozens of coronavirus vaccines are in clinical trials in the U.S.
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Vaibhav Upadhyay, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Krishna Mallela, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Existing coronavirus vaccines are not as effective against newer variants of the virus. Two vaccine experts explain how new vaccines currently in development will likely offer better protection.
Health-care workers protest over stalled contract negotiations with the provincial government in Montréal in October 2020.
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To prevent a shortage of health workers, public expressions of appreciation need to be backed by policies that provide dignity, decent working conditions, accountability and appropriate remuneration.
Most children who catch COVID have mild illness and recover quickly. We identified key proteins in kids who’d had severe COVID with painful inflammation or respiratory failure.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand