Breaking: Ontario reporting 779 hospitalizations with COVID-19, 246 in the ICU
was treating 54, including five in the ICU. It’s a significant decrease from a combined high of 309 on Jan. 17, including 38 in the ICU.9:20 a.m.
“People should hold on to their masks and KN/N95 respirators. The pandemic may be easing up in most areas of the U.S., but we’ve been here before,” Dr. Sheela Shenoi, an infectious disease doctor and assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, told McClatchy News in a statement.Millions of Californians face the prospect of losing health coverage this year as federal measures that vastly expanded the ranks of the insured amid the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire this year.
But in at least two cases, it looks as if they can. Minks have spread the virus to people, and in a new Canadian study, scientists identified one person who tested positive after unspecified"close contact" with infected white-tailed deer. Despite providing this crucial work and leadership to our nation’s pandemic response, women have been left behind during the past two years. Women in Canada were more likely than men to lose their jobs at the onset of the pandemic. And perhaps most concerning of all, we have seen women’s participation in the economy fall to levels we have not seen in more than 40 years.