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White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is once more making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it releases its contingency plans with coronavirus cases ticking upward this winter.
Dec 15, 2022 1:38 PM
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Virtual walk-in clinics may contribute more strain to health-care system: OMA
Virtual-care clinics may be adding pressure to the overwhelmed health-care system, the Ontario Medical Association said Thursday, even as some patients and doctors say they are vital alternatives to an otherwise necessary visit to an emergency room.
Dec 15, 2022 1:15 PM
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Personal health information 'disturbingly' vulnerable: B.C. privacy commissioner
VICTORIA — Sensitive personal health records of British Columbia residents, from mental health to sexually transmitted disease histories, are "disturbingly" vulnerable to leaks, the provincial privacy watchdog says.
Dec 15, 2022 1:03 PM
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Nova Scotia adds hundreds more beds to redevelopment of Halifax hospital complex
HALIFAX — The planned redevelopment of a sprawling Halifax hospital complex is being reworked to add hundreds more beds and new facilities, the Nova Scotia government announced Thursday.
Dec 15, 2022 12:32 PM
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Organic livestock farmers, hit by rising prices, seek help
WHITINGHAM, Vt.
Dec 15, 2022 8:46 AM
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Ontario to open bivalent COVID-19 vaccine bookings for kids 5 to 11 on Dec. 21
TORONTO — The Ontario government is expanding eligibility for the COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine to children aged five to 11. The province says kids in that age group will be eligible for a bivalent dose starting Dec. 21.
Dec 15, 2022 5:58 AM
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A week into China's easing, uncertainty over virus direction
BEIJING (AP) — A week after China dramatically eased some of the world's strictest COVID-19 containment measures, uncertainty remained Thursday over the direction of the pandemic in the world's most populous nation.
Dec 15, 2022 4:01 AM
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UK nurses join wave of strike action to demand better pay
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of nurses walked off their jobs in England on Thursday, escalating a wave of industrial unrest in the U.K.
Dec 15, 2022 3:47 AM
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Foxconn to ease COVID-19 curbs in Chinese iPhone factory
HONG KONG (AP) — The company that assembles Apple Inc.’s iPhones has announced it is easing COVID-19 restrictions at its largest factory in China that led thousands of workers to quit and drastically slowed production.
Dec 15, 2022 3:03 AM
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Six-month COVID-19 vaccine delay would have cost $156B: study
A study from the C.D. Howe Institute estimates Canada would have lost $156 billion in economic activity in 2021 had COVID-19 vaccines been rolled out six months later than they were. That would have been equivalent to about 12.
Dec 15, 2022 3:00 AM
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