Coronavirus Replace: Pandemic’s finish isn’t what we envisioned, writes Marsha Lederman

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1. Whereas we could have envisioned the end of the pandemic having a defining, celebratory moment, life is as a substitute returning to regular with a maskless whimper, writes Marsha Lederman
2. You requested, we answered: The Decibel posed your COVID-19 questions to Dr. Lisa Barrett, who tackled questions like, how do you inform if in case you have COVID, a flu or a chilly?
3. Travellers to Canada no longer need to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, and carrying a masks on planes and trains is non-obligatory, as of final Saturday

COVID-19 updates from Canada and the world

• Infectious illness specialist Dr. Lisa Barrett talks with The Decibel to answer your COVID-19 questions. These are simply a few of the matters addressed on the episode: Once you get sick, is there any approach to inform if it’s COVID-19 or the flu or a chilly? How lengthy do you have to isolate if in case you have COVID-19? What’s the fitting timeframe to get a bivalent vaccine – and what does bivalent imply?
• Extra American lawmakers are calling for the White House to end vaccination rules at the Canada-U.S. land border. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Brian Higgins have written to induce President Joe Biden to “reciprocate” Canada’s new COVID-19 border coverage.
• The Canadian Armed Forces has required since December that each one troops obtain two photographs of a acknowledged COVID-19 vaccine. And as vaccine restrictions ease throughout the nation, Defence Minister Anita Anand is standing by the mandate.
• The Ontario science desk’s remaining report is highlighting long-standing challenges within the province that pose a menace to the routine functioning of the well being system, and to future pandemic preparedness. “Our hope is that by means of any potential future waves of this pandemic, that high-quality major care is a centrepiece of the response,” Fahad Razak, the outgoing scientific director of the outdated desk, mentioned.
• In Alberta, candidates vying to turn into the next UCP leader and premier have defined themselves by their attitude toward COVID-19. Danielle Smith, a former chief of the Wildrose Occasion, has put essentially the most distance between herself and the provincial authorities’s pandemic insurance policies, steadily citing them as she argues for her proposed sovereignty act.
• Alberta Well being Companies says extra MRI and CT scans are being accomplished now than earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic – including there has been a sharp increase in demand for emergency CT scans for COVID-19 patients, and it’s anticipated to rise once more as winter approaches.
• Quebec Chief François Legault’s authorities awarded main American consulting agency McKinsey & Firm $35,000 a day for strategies on managing the COVID-19 pandemic. A Radio-Canada investigation printed Friday revealed McKinsey billed the Quebec authorities $6.6-million and performed a key function within the Quebec authorities’s pandemic response. In the meantime, new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are on the rise in Quebec, prompting the province to make the influenza vaccine obtainable sooner than normal, to guard folks from each.
• A Japanese well being ministry panel on Wednesday really useful approving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as six months old. The panel additionally really useful approval of a model of the Pfizer vaccine that protects in opposition to the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron. Moderna mentioned earlier on Wednesday it was looking for Japanese approval of its personal subvariant shot.
• Indonesia mentioned it has granted emergency use approval of the China-made Walvax Biotechnology mRNA vaccine, changing into the primary nation, forward of even China, to take action.

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