The UK drug regulator added an extremely rare nerve-damaging disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), as a very rare side effect of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, updates on the agency’s website showed on Thursday. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) decision comes after the European medicines agency added GBS as a …
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Kids age 5 to 11 will be able to get a COVID-19 shot at their doctors’ offices, pharmacies and potentially even their schools, the White House said Wednesday as it detailed plans for the expected authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot for younger children in a matter of weeks. Federal regulators …
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Parliament will return on Nov. 22, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced Friday morning in a news release. “From finishing the fight against COVID-19 to getting the job done on $10-a-day child care for families across the country, Canadians chose to move forward in September,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in …
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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 15, 2021 11:25 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has written to hospital CEOs, local medical officers of health …
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Ten-year-old labradoodle Cooper is doing his part to make it easier for those nervous about needles to get their COVID-19 vaccines. The St. John Ambulance therapy dog is spending part of each Saturday at the vaccine clinic inside the Vernon Recreation Centre. “We were contacted by Interior Health and …
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About two dozen demonstrators gathered outside Rolly’s Restaurant in Hope, B.C. on Friday, to support the eatery which had its business and liquor licences pulled for defying the province’s vaccine passport system this week. “It’s not fair for them to shut down this restaurant,” longtime Hope resident Donna Burns …
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Calgary restaurant Without Papers is now without the papers it needs to operate. The City of Calgary revoked the pizza shop’s business licence Thursday, while the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission stripped it of its liquor licence and Alberta Health Services pulled the food handling permits. Read more: Calgary …
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Canada is facing a potential wave of terminations tied to mandatory workplace vaccine policies as a growing number of employers require workers to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 — or risk losing their jobs, legal experts say. Governments, institutions and companies have spent months hammering out vaccine mandates in a …
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New Delhi: A new study of about 5,000 Israeli health workers, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has found that there is a continuous decrease in protective antibodies during the six months after the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is administered. The research states that boosters are …
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It’s been five months since the Bolivian government called on Canada to allow COVID-19 vaccines to flow from a manufacturer in St. Catharines, Ont., to the Global South. Now, the country, where fewer than thirty per cent of people are fully vaccinated, is repeating its request for Canada to …
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