Health & Living

2020-07-03

Migrant Farm Workers “Hid” From COVID-19 Testers Out Of Fear: Ford

David McNamara Business & Economics, Canada, Health & Living, Politics 0

Article Link: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/migrant-farm-workers-hid-covid-19-ford_ca_5efe5356c5b612083c594db4

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

TORONTO — Migrant workers at an Ontario farm struggling with a major COVID-19 outbreak “hid” to avoid getting tested when health officials visited recently, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday, refusing to name the business. Ford said fears among temporary foreign workers that they would not be paid or sent back to their home countries if they tested positive for the virus are hindering efforts to address the outbreak at the farm in the Windsor-Essex region that has seen 191 workers infected with COVID-19. The premier said only three or four workers at the farm co-operated with health officials who showed up to do more testing. “All the workers went and hid,” he said. “That’s why my emphasis to the workers is nothing’s going to happen. We’re here, Ontario is here, to help you.”

2020-07-03

Students are throwing ‘coronavirus parties’ to intentionally infect each other

David McNamara Health & Living, International, Strange & Weird 0

Article Link: https://thepostmillennial.com/students-intentionally-throwing-co

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, students have been partaking in a contest to see who among them can catch coronavirus first, says a city council member. Students who have already been diagnosed with the virus are intentionally attending the parties, according to ABC News. Sonya McKinstry, the Tuscaloosa City Councillor said the “COVID parties” have been organized by students as part of a game with the goal of infecting each other with the virus responsible for over 127,000 deaths in the United States alone. She added that the party organizers are intentionally inviting others who have tested positive for the virus. “They put money in a pot and they try to get COVID. Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot. It makes no sense,” McKinstry noted. “They’re intentionally doing it.”

2020-07-03

Now Even the WHO Is Saying You Shouldn’t Wear a Mask in Public All the Time

David McNamara Health & Living, International 0

Article Link: https://www.westernjournal.com/now-even-saying-shouldnt-wear-mask-public-time/

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

As political forces in the United States push for strict mask mandates to fight the spread of the coronavirus, new guidance issued by the World Health Organization undermines the left’s claim that people must be forced to wear the protective equipment in public. The WHO posted the updated recommendations in a Wednesday tweet. This most recent change, which outlines when people should not wear a mask in public, follows months of inconsistent information from the group about face coverings. “People should NOT wear masks when exercising,” the WHO’s update reads, “as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably.”

2020-06-30

China study warns of possible new ‘pandemic virus’ from pigs

itzfitzheretwo Health & Living, International 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/china-study-warns-of-possible-new-pandemic-virus-from-pigs/wcm/8a1171ff-f2d3-4678-8532-ee6dff279548

Discussion posted by: itzfitzheretwo

A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential “pandemic virus,” a study said, although experts said there is no imminent threat. A team of Chinese researchers looked at influenza viruses found in pigs from 2011 to 2018 and found a “G4” strain of H1N1 that has “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus,” according to the paper, published by the U.S. journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

2020-06-30

Coronavirus: EU to allow in visitors from 14 ‘safe’ countries

David McNamara Health & Living, International, Politics 0

Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53222356

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

The EU has named 14 countries whose citizens are deemed “safe” to be let in from 1 July, despite the pandemic – but the US, Brazil and China are excluded. Those named include Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco and South Korea. The EU is ready to add China if the Chinese government offers a reciprocal deal for EU travellers, diplomats say. EU border controls have been lifted for EU citizens travelling inside the bloc. Rules for UK travellers are covered separately in the Brexit negotiations. UK nationals are still to be treated in the same way as EU citizens until the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December. Therefore, during that time UK nationals and their family members are exempt from the temporary travel restriction.

2020-06-30

Canadian Medical Students Demand Change After ‘Inhumane’ Exam Conditions

David McNamara Canada, Education, Health & Living 0

Article Link: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/mccqe-canadian-med-school-exam_ca_5ef61235c5b6acab2840f001

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

Dr. Brianna Barsanti-Innes was about five hours into her seven-and-a-half hour digital medical licensing exam when the system disconnected. The morning of June 12, she’d launched the ProProctor app on her laptop — the digital platform from Prometric, the American-based company that administers and proctors the exam — and, using her laptop’s camera, did a security check to show she wasn’t hiding any recording devices. The University of Toronto graduate ensured her partner was out of the apartment, because you’re not allowed to have anyone else there.

2020-06-30

New coronavirus infections up slightly in Ontario following decline

David McNamara Canada, Health & Living 0

Article Link: https://thepostmillennial.com/new-covid-19-infections-up-slightly-in-ontario-following-decline

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

As of Monday, Ontario’s total COVID-19 cases is at 34,911 with 257 new cases recorded on Monday. Of the new cases, 177 were recorded in Windsor-Essex, according to Global News. Monday’s increase marks the highest number of new recorded cases in one day since June 13. Ontario had seen a slow decline overall in its daily infection numbers spanning the past several weeks. The province has conducted 1,383,566 COVID-19 tests so far, testing 27,127 people on Sunday alone.

2020-06-29

New York’s Cuomo says Trump should mandate masks in public to fight virus

IRWeasel Health & Living, International, Politics 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/new-yorks-cuomo-says-trump-should-mandate-masks-in-public-to-fight-virus/wcm/4d9aa720-8525-4891-a27d-a0c1fc2a890d

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that President Donald Trump should issue an executive order mandating that people wear masks in public and he should lead by example and cover his face. “The other states are just starting to do it now, states that were recalcitrant, governors who said ‘we don’t need to do this, masks don’t work,” Cuomo said at a media briefing. “Now they’re doing a 180…let the president have the same sense and do that as an executive order.”

2020-06-29

Pandemic ‘not even close to being over,’ WHO chief says

IRWeasel Health & Living, International 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/pandemic-not-even-close-to-being-over-who-chief-says/wcm/c40a021b-827f-4cc0-8c3e-b2c85a267069

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

GENEVA — The COVID-19 pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Monday. Tedros noted that, six months after China first alerted the WHO to a novel respiratory infection, the grim milestones of 10 million confirmed infections and 500,000 deaths had been reached. “Most people remain susceptible, the virus still has a lot of room to move,” he said.

2020-06-29

Mysterious radiation spike reported over parts of Northern Europe

IRWeasel Health & Living, International, Nature & Environment, Strange & Weird 0

Article Link: https://www.foxnews.com/science/mysterious-radiation-spike-reported-parts-of-northern-europe

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

A mysterious radiation spike has been reported over parts of Northern Europe. Calculations made by Dutch officials indicate that the radiation comes from the direction of western Russia. “The combination of radionuclides may be explained by an anomaly in the fuel elements of a nuclear power plant,” said the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in a statement.

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