Ontario marks highest COVID-19 test positivity since mid-January, hospitalizations up by 30%

Test positivity rate has gone up to 19 per cent, the highest since mid-January, when it hit 24.5 during the Omicron wave.

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COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Monday

Quebec Public Health is 'seriously considering' pushing the end of mask mandates to a later date due to the severity of the sixth wave. The government is expected to announce its decision Tuesday. Here's what you need to know.

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Why Canada should have known Big Tobacco ties would risk COVID-19 vaccine approval

Canada should have known the World Health Organization likely wouldn’t approve Medicago’s COVID-19 vaccine over its close ties with tobacco giant Philip Morris — before deciding to invest millions of taxpayer money in the company.

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Animal tranquilizer showing up in human overdose deaths

A powerful drug used to sedate horses and cattle is creeping into Canada's illicit drug supply and has been detected in a growing number of human drug poisoning deaths in Ontario.

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Probiotics, prebiotics — now postbiotics? What's known and not about latest gut research

You may have heard of prebiotics and probiotics, but how about postbiotics? It's a relatively new term and it's an area of research that is very popular right now, microbiologists say.

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COVID-related hospitalizations at a low point but BA.2 subvariant is driving new infections: modelling

New federal modelling released today suggests there will be an increase in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks because the much more infectious BA.2 subvariant is circulating widely.

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For one Winnipeg family, the end of COVID restrictions led to 'a household full of COVID'

One Winnipeg family eased up when Manitoba loosened COVID restrictions. Three out of four of them got sick. Now they're wondering whether the province made the right decision.

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