As the world on Monday passed yet another sombre pandemic milestone – five million lives lost to COVID-19 – Secretary-General António Guterres called on global leaders to back the UN strategy to make vaccine equity a reality by accelerating efforts
Progress is being made in the fight against leprosy, but millions are still affected by the disease, and many sufferers have to contend with social exclusion. On World Leprosy Day, marked annually on 31 January, experts are calling for an end to
The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is highly transmissible and current vaccines may have reduced effectiveness in preventing symptomatic infection. Using epidemiological and genomic analysis, we investigated an outbreak of the variant in an acute care
Government is directing Alberta Health Services to temporarily suspend parking fees for health-care workers and the general public during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
A significant change for patients and families during SARs-CoV-2 has been the restriction of visitors for hospitalized patients. We analyzed SARs-CoV-2 hospital visitation policies and found widespread variation in both development and content. This
New Brunswick reached a milestone today with fully 75 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated. In addition, 84.4 per cent have received one dose of vaccine. There are three people hospitalized due to COVID-19, including one in an
The sero-epidemiology of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at a household level has been assessed through screening contacts of medically attended adult index cases, using cohorts with limited numbers of infected children, and/or outside the US.1-3