President Donald Trump has been censored on Facebook and Twitter after saying children are “almost immune” from COVID-19. What do the facts say? We know
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The novel coronavirus isn’t the first virus to jump from animals to people and wreak havoc. HIV. Ebola. Swine flu. Bird flu. SARS. MERS. The
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We all have habits. Generally, we try to create positive habits, like saving money, and break bad ones, like smoking. Over the past few months,
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As of June 12, child-care centres in Ontario can open, following reopenings in most regions of Québec. But while these child-care centres are doing their
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Around the world, barriers to providing healthcare remotely—known as “telemedicine”—have come down overnight. COVID-19 has moved us from a cautious debate about whether to use
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With social distancing guidelines and mandates mostly lifted, people have begun to head back to beaches, parks and restaurants in many parts of the U.S.
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By now, we’re all familiar with the immense strain the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on our health care system, with many medical facilities across the
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In a century where the number of urban crises affecting cities around the world has risen, western cities have, for the most part, remained relatively
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Although some media outlets have begun referring to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a “modern plague”, the threat of COVID-19 remains negligible compared
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Improvements in the nation’s health care system—particularly changes that address inequities in care and the impact of social determinants of health—are necessary to achieve the
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