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Health officials mistakenly allowed disease to spread in hospitals
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Why Canada is taking so long to start testing blood for COVID-19
Because of testing delays in Canada, thousands of COVID-19 cases are being missed. There is a rapid blood test that will reveal within 15 minutes who has been infected, but so far none of those tests has been approved for use in Canada.
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Kelly Crowe
Health |
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Analysis
Canadians want to know how bad this could get. Is anyone ready to tell us?
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Aaron Wherry
Politics ||
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Long waits for COVID-19 test results reveal Canada's shortage of lab workers
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Brandie Weikle
Health |
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Super-spreading events linked to COVID-19 across the country
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Kelly Geraldine Malone
Canada -Edmonton |
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Ottawa nurse says pandemic panic has left her homeless
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Catherine Cullen
Politics ||
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Idled industrial plants seen as an untapped source of protective equipment for health workers
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Murray Brewster
Politics ||
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Will COVID-19 become a seasonal disease like the flu? It's too early to tell, experts say
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Nicole Mortillaro
Health ||
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Ottawa 'likely did not have enough' protective gear stockpiled: Hajdu
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Catharine Tunney
Politics ||
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U.S. FDA moves to remove all versions of heartburn drug Zantac from market
Health |
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40 dead from COVID-19 in Ontario nursing and retirement homes
Mike Crawley
Canada -Toronto ||
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'Everybody is susceptible': Why younger Canadians may be helping fuel the spread of COVID-19
Adam Miller
Health |
Canadian government shopping for high-demand N95 masks on the international market
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Scott Anderson
Investigates ||
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Long-term care homes are worrisome COVID-19 hotspots
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Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canada |
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What is a ventilator and who gets one if COVID-19 turns catastrophic in Canada?
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Amina Zafar
Health ||
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Canadian hospitals getting 'creative' to expand COVID-19 care facilities
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Dianne Buckner
Health |
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Both parents have COVID-19. The challenge now is to keep their boys healthy
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Paisley Woodward
Canada -British Columbia |
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Leading with her heart: Long before COVID-19, Deena Hinshaw was making an impression
Kashmala Fida
Canada -Edmonton |
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'I felt a tiny bit invincible until I got this': Vancouver ER doctor with COVID-19 shares his story
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Briar Stewart
Canada -British Columbia |
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Pandemic could block access to medically-assisted dying for some Sask. patients
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Alicia Bridges
Canada -Saskatoon |
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Volunteer dies of COVID-19 as daughter races across Canada to be near her
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Adam Carter
Canada -Toronto ||
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Opinion
Pressures of COVID-19 could be catastrophic for mental health system
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Dr. Andrew L. Smith
Opinion ||
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COVID-19 prompts flood of people to write, change their wills — but quarantine measures are getting in the way
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Aaron Saltzman
Business ||
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'An amazing man': Young father identified as northern Alberta's 1st fatal case of COVID-19
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Wallis Snowdon
Canada -Edmonton |
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3 more seniors die, leaving Ontario cottage community shocked by COVID-19 outbreak in nursing home
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Mark Gollom
Canada -Toronto ||
Some health experts questioning advice against wider use of masks to slow spread of COVID-19
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Evan Dyer
Politics ||
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