Tag: Coronavirus
Western University researcher using AI to unlock secrets of long COVID
A London medical student trying to get to the bottom of long COVID is taking a page from bankers, harnessing artificial intelligence they use to analyze stocks to seek signs of the virus in blood.
Top doctor reflects as London-area quietly records 500th COVID-linked death
Calling it a milestone to be “mourned and celebrated,” public-health officials have quietly marked the 500th London-area death linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak nearly three years ago.
New year, new variant?: Researchers keeping close eye on wastewater for Kraken
The new highly contagious Omicron subvariant Kraken is not showing up in London’s wastewater yet, Western University experts say, even as overall levels of COVID-19 viral material in the city’s sewage began rising last month.
With ERs swamped, LHSC’s COVID, cold and flu clinic opens to children
London’s COVID, cold and flu assessment centre will begin seeing sick children Wednesday, a strategy that hospital officials hope will reduce the strain on burdened emergency rooms.
First local COVID death of 2023, virus’s fourth calendar year, recorded
The London area has recorded its first COVID-19-linked death of 2023, which is the fourth calendar year of the virus taking a toll on the community.