Tag: Coronavirus
Area COVID vaccine clinics to close after doling out nearly 500K doses
After nearly two years of operation and a half-million doses administered, Southwestern Public Health will close its COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics this month.
Pearson: COVID still a challenge that requires a balanced approach
We had hoped to escape the clutches of a difficult 2022 and embrace something better in this new year, but things aren’t turning out quite the way we thought.
‘Treated fairly’: Western ombudsman details student COVID vaccine fallout
Roughly three-dozen Western University students last year contacted their ombudsperson with concerns over the school’s on-campus COVID-19 vaccine mandate – some of whom were forced to take a leave from their studies for violating the requirement.
More COVID, cold and flu clinics open amid ER pressures
The group in charge of health-care delivery in Elgin County has launched three new COVID-19, cold and flu assessment clinics to help ease some of the pressure the respiratory virus season is putting on emergency rooms.
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.
London hospital’s busy COVID-cold-flu clinic soon to open to sick kids
London’s expanded COVID-19, cold and flu assessment centre has seen more than 310 patients in its first two weeks, and is on track to open to pediatric patients soon.