The COVID-19 death rate in less-crowded nursing homes in Ontario, Canada, was less than half that of homes with shared bedrooms and bathrooms during the first months of the pandemic, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.The findings come as US nursing homes are seeing a spike in new COVID-19 cases amid increasing community spread, including a 120% rise in Midwestern states since mid-September, according to an updated report today from the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL).New weekly nursing home cases grew 43% from mid-September to the week of Oct 18, with 1,192 nursing home deaths reported that week, according to AHCA/NCAL.Lower risk in single-occupancy roomsLed

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COVID-19.According to a statement sent out by the restaurant chain, on Nov. 13, an employee at the 705 Sir John A.

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Coronavirus: Commercial eviction ban ends, lease terminations begin in Toronto

Toronto came as a surprise. So did the changed locks, he said.“It’s not fair for them to do that,” Miranda told Global News, describing what he saw when he arrived at his Augusta Avenue gym earlier this month.“The landlord never called to let me know he was doing this,” said Miranda, who has run Krudar Muay Thai at the Kensington Market location for about eight years.

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University of Regina biochemist receives funding for groundbreaking COVID-19 research

University of Regina is receiving government funding for his work in developing testing for COVID-19 through saliva, which could provide results within minutes.“The most common way we test for COVID is to use an invasive nasal swab, but this technique doesn’t always provide an accurate diagnosis,” said Mohan Babu, a University of Regina researcher. Google announces $4M in funding for artificial intelligence research in Montreal Babu is receiving the funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund, according to the university’s website.

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Kenney: 'Changes to restrictions' coming soon amid rise in COVID-19 cases

PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Jim Kenney tweeted Friday afternoon that the city will be announcing "changes to restrictions" next week amid a rise in Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in Philadelphia.The city reported 1,158 new cases Friday, plus 30 new probable cases from rapid tests. Philly reached a new high in terms of seven-day average in cases earlier this week.The positivity rate is up, too.

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Ottawa bus driver tests positive for coronavirus

novel coronavirus, according to a memo from the head of Ottawa’s transit agency.John Manconi said in a memo Thursday evening that the bus driver last worked on Nov. 9.The key dates during which the driver would have been most at risk of transmitting the disease are Nov 7-9, according to Ottawa Public Health, but Manconi said the individual wasn’t working the previous two days.

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45 more COVID-19 cases reported in Waterloo Region, total rises to 2,577

coronavirus on Friday bringing the total number of cases in the area to 2,577.Over the past week, the rolling average for the area has risen to 40 cases per day prompting the agency to ask the province to approve a move to orange or restrict level in its colour-coded system for governing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Ontario reports 1,396 new coronavirus cases, 19 more deaths A further 39 people have been cleared of the virus bringing the total number of resolved cases to 2,170.There has not been a COVID-19-related death reported in the region since Nov.

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Migrant worker fired for speaking about COVID 19 wins labour case against farm

migrant worker it fired in retaliation for speaking out about working conditions.The Ontario Labour Review Board says Scotlynn Sweetpac Growers Inc. fired Gabriel Flores in June and immediately sent him back to Mexico after he privately and publicly expressed concerns over working and living conditions.

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Coronavirus: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says province updating threshold warning levels

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that they were updating the threshold warning levels for COVID-19 that were put in place and stressed people should work remotely where possible and not visit people outside of their own homes.

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Coronavirus: Several Ontario regions moved to red alert level says health minister

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott announced on Friday that they were lowering the thresholds for their COVID-19 alert levels and in turn several health units would be moving to new levels, with Hamilton, Halton, Peel and York moving to red level, Niagara, Waterloo and Durham among seven regions moving to orange, and Windsor-Essex, Middlesex-London and Sudbury moving to yellow level.

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COVID-19-positive health workers in North Dakota can work amid spike

Coronavirus cases continue to surge in North Dakota as the state recently announced new steps to help with hospital capacity and faces pressure to impose tighter restrictions.North Dakota is now allowing health-care workers who are COVID-19-positive, but asymptomatic, to continue working in coronavirus units, Governor Doug Burgum announced on Monday, as maintaining staffing levels continues to be a challenge amid heavy patient counts.“Our hospitals are under enormous pressure now,” Burgum said in a press release. “We can see the future two, three weeks out, and we know that we have severe constraints.”As of Thursday morning, the state had 707 COVID-19-related deaths and 293 people in hospital because of the virus.

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‘It’s a tough go out there’: Peterborough small business facing ongoing pandemic challenges

coronavirus pandemic continues to hammer the small business sector from coast to coast.From the closures and restrictions in the spring to reduced capacities for patrons inside of businesses in the summer and fall, 2020 has been a tough go.Camille Parent has owned Peterborough Vacuum for 30 years and says this year has been unlike anything he’s seen.“It’s a tough go out there. Nobody knows where things are going to go,” he said.Parent tells Global News Peterborough his business, which sells vacuums and cleaning supplies and offers repairs, was closed for a month at the outset of the pandemic during stage one restrictions in April.Despite being open since, he says he’s seeing a dropoff in revenue.“We’d usually have a lot more sales than

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Coronavirus Scotland: 56 added to grim death toll as number of cases increases

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterAnother 56 people have tragically died from COVID-19 in Scotland with 1,357 new cases of the disease diagnosed.The Scottish Government released new data this afternoon as part of its national COVID-19 daily briefing.Scotland's death toll from the virus is now 3,244 while three of the people who died in the last 24 hours were from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran region.However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 4,856 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, November 8 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded in NHS Ayrshire & Arran has increased by 77 to 5,476.There

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Monitoring and Evaluating Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies In K-12 Schools: Focus Group Guide

Understand the impact of COVID-19 mitigation strategies. Includes example questions, indicators, and data sources Steps to develop a useful and feasible monitoring and evaluation plan Understand individual perceptions and experiences with mitigation strategies in K-12 schools Learn about perceptions and experiences with mitigation strategies from small groupsThis focus group guidepdf icon contains sections that are adaptable for your local context.

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Florida reports nearly 7,000 new coronavirus cases as surge continues across US

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Health experts are projecting that thousands more people in Florida could die from the coronavirus in the coming months.Dr.

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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah posts second positive Covid-19 test as Egypt FA clarify situation

The Egyptian FA have confirmed that Mohamed Salah has provided a second positive coronavirus test.

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COVID-19 Scan for Nov 13, 2020

In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.The study, published yesterday in JAMA, defined clinic

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Trump to deliver first public remarks in over a week on COVID-19 vaccine efforts

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver an update Friday on Operation Warp Speed, the White House effort to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. The event will mark the president’s first address in more than a week, and his first since major news outlets, including AP News and FOX News, projected that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.Trump was briefed by advisers in the Oval Office earlier Friday on the subject and will speak at 4 p.m. ET from the Rose Garden, according to the White House. President Donald Trump speaks in the briefing room at the White House on Nov.

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Kenney: 'Changes to restrictions' coming Monday amid rise in COVID-19 cases

Mayor Jim Kenney tweeted Friday afternoon that the city will be announcing "changes to restrictions" next week amid a rise in Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in Philadelphia.The city reported 1,158 new cases Friday, plus 30 new probable cases from rapid tests. Philly reached a new high in terms of seven-day average in cases earlier this week.The positivity rate is up, too.

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Larsa Pippen reveals she has 'been battling COVID for a week' after Kim Kardashian feud

Larsa Pippen has revealed that she's been 'battling COVID' in an Instagram Story posted on Thursday.The shock news comes after the 46-year-old former Real Housewives of Miami star found her way back into the headlines after a brutal feud with her ex-friendKim Kardashian, who according to sources close to the star, has accused Larsa of just 'trying to stay relevant.'E!, which is home to Keeping Up with the Kardashians, also reported that sources close to Kim say the whole family 'think Larsa is toxic energy.' Sick:Larsa Pippen has found her way back into the headlines after a brutal feud with her ex-friend Kim Kardashian and revealed that she's been 'battling COVID' in an Instagram Story on ThursdayPippen has been embroiled in a nasty spat

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Alberta has reported 0 cases of influenza so far this season

released by Alberta Health Services Thursday showed there have been zero lab-confirmed cases of influenza and no hospitalizations yet this season.Dr. Grace Salvo, a medical officer of health with Alberta Health Services, said the data doesn’t necessarily mean there is no influenza circulating in Alberta, it means that it hasn’t yet been detected.She stressed that every season, the flu comes at different times, “so it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing it in our population.”“Every year, the influenza changes a little bit and that’s why every year people need to get re-vaccinated.

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Two businesses fined $5,000 as Winnipeg steps up COVID-19 enforcement

reported earlier this week, and Serratus Movement Centre, a children’s indoor play centre.Numerous businesses were also ticketed by provincial officers over the past two weeks. Numerous $5,000 tickets issued in Manitoba for not following COVID health orders Winnipeg’s bylaw officers are working well with their provincial counterparts, said Shaw.“Our orders are to enforce businesses that should be closed … and enforce orders where there are capacity limits.

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COVID-19: ‘You can’t let people fragrantly disregard the rules’: Nenshi discusses enforcement

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi discusses his opinions on the city’s ability to enforce COVID-19 restrictions.

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Coronavirus: Nenshi wants to ramp up contact tracing in the province

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi says the City of Calgary would be happy to collaborate with the province and private industry to ramp up COVID-19 contact tracing.

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Hamilton, Halton and York entering red level as Ontario lowers COVID-19 restrictions threshold

COVID-19 restrictions system as coronavirus cases surge, bringing Hamilton as well as the regions of Halton and York into the red zone with Toronto and Peel Region.Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement alongside Health Minister Christine Elliott and the province’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams during a news conference at Queen’s Park on Friday.

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New Mexico coronavirus patient undergoes life-saving double lung transplant

A New Mexico man who spent more than 100 days in the hospital and on a ventilator after contracting the novel coronavirus has undergone a life-saving double lung transplant, according to the hospital where he was treated. Arthur Sanchez, a father of two, underwent the transplant at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., in August, becoming only the third coronavirus patient to undergo the procedure, which is considered as a “last resort for patients who have developed irreversible lung damage from COVID-19,” according to a news release from the hospital. Arthur and Michaela Sanchez.

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Interferon beta-1a may help COVID-19 patients recover faster

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine yesterday published the results of a clinical trial showing that the inhaled immune response protein interferon beta-1a reduced the chances of hospitalized COVID-19 patients becoming severely ill or dying of their infection.

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Coronavirus: 9 cases, 13 recoveries in London-Middlesex; 6 cases in Huron-Perth

coronavirus while 13 have recovered, the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported Friday.The update brings the region’s total case count to 1,323, of which 1,119 people have recovered and 63 have died. The most recent death was reported Saturday.Friday marks the first time in eight days that the daily case increase has not been in the double digits.There are 141 known active cases of the virus in the region, the health unit says.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa down to 41 new COVID-19 cases following single-day spike

coronavirus infection on Friday, though the number of new deaths and hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in the city remains high.Ottawa Public Health reported 41 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, down from a spike of 91 new cases on Thursday.The local public health unit also reported six new deaths related to the virus, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 356.

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Guelph reports 2 new COVID-19 cases, active cases fall to 37

COVID-19 on Friday, raising the city’s total case count to 481.Active cases in the city fell by seven from the previous day to 37, which includes one person being treated in the hospital. Grand River Hospital to open COVID-19 testing facility at Charles Street Terminal in Kitchener Nine more people have recovered from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, as resolved cases stand at 433.Guelph’s death toll of 11 has remained unchanged since June.One more COVID-19 outbreak in the city has been declared at The Village Arbour Trails, however public health’s online portal shows no cases among staff or residents connected to the outbreak.There are now five outbreaks in Guelph.

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Waterloo Public Health asks province to move region to orange restrict level

COVID-19 pandemic restriction system, Waterloo Public Health says it has asked the province to move into the orange restrict level which would place further restrictions on the area.“Given the continual increase in our cases and complexity of outbreaks over the past week, we have met the indicators in the orange restrict category of the provincial framework,” Dr. Julie Emili of Waterloo Public Health said Friday.

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Information for School Nurses and Other Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Working in Schools and Child Care Settings

symptoms of COVID-19 are similar in adults and children and can look like other common illnesses, like colds, strep throat, influenza, or allergies. For more information about influenza, visit Influenza Information for Health Professionals and The Difference Between Flu and COVID-19.Children with underlying medical conditions are at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.

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Larsa Pippen Says She's Battling COVID-19

Larsa Pippen is the latest celebrity to test positive for COVID-19.In a since-deleted Instagram Story posted on Friday, Pippen, 46, admitted that she has been battling the coronavirus and is in pain.«I've been battling Covid for a week. It's no joke,» she wrote alongside a pic of herself in bed.

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straight to your inboxGood evening, Man City fans. Here are your evening headlines for Friday, November 13.City handed boost following Ake injuryManchester City have been boosted by Fernandinho’s return to training ahead of next weekend’s Premier League clash against Tottenham.

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Schools still open amid Canadian coronavirus resurgence. But for how long?

coronavirus cases continuing to rise across Canada — and showing no sign of slowing down — Quebec is now contemplating either shutting down in-person classrooms or extending the winter school break.Quebec Premier François Legault said on Thursday that the province is looking at the possibility of closing schools in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, but stressed that it is still the last thing the government wants to do. Quebec looks at temporarily closing schools as coronavirus crisis deepens He said more than 300 classrooms already closed in the last two days, for a total of 1,174 across the province.“Schools are a place of transmission.

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Coronavirus: 4 new cases in Northumberland County, 1 in City of Kawartha Lakes

coronavirus on Friday.Four of the cases are in Northumberland County and one is in the City of Kawartha Lakes.The five new cases puts the health unit’s overall total at 268. There are currently seven active cases — five in Northumberland County (57 total) and two in the City of Kawartha Lakes (189 total).

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‘People in London have shown they know what to do’: Trudeau talks local COVID-19 response

Justin Trudeau praised the heroics of health-care workers across Canada and added that Londoners “have shown that they know what to do” in response to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.Trudeau spoke on The Morning Show with Devon Peacock on Global News Radio 980 CFPL a day after his virtual visit with health-care workers in London, Ont., on Thursday.

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New Brunswick reports 2 new COVID-19 cases, 1 recovery Friday

COVID-19 in the province on Friday as well as one new recovery.There are now 14 confirmed active cases of the novel coronavirus in the province.

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As the coronavirus outbreak bludgeons Hollywood with global travel restrictions, Alberta has rolled out rapid COVID-19 testing that has A-list stars now able to safely cross a closed U.S.-Canadian border and step onto a local film and TV sets in just two days. Consider it Canada's express lane for American talent and crews as cases of COVID-19 rise in both countries.

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AFM: COVID-19 Uncertainty Puts Damper on Deals

A lack of big tentpole titles and continued uncertainty about the near-term future of cinema distribution put a damper on this year's, online-only, American Film Market. News, announced on Monday, the first day of AFM, that a coronavirus vaccine from drugmaker Pfizer was more than 90 percent effective in initial tests gave hope to the industry that movie theaters will reopen next year and production, hampered by the difficulties of shooting during the pandemic and of the cost of insuring against COVID-19, could return to normal.

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Department: Diabetes Can Be Prevented and Help is Available

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Bakery chain Greggs to permanently axe 820 jobs due to Covid-19 pandemic

Britain's biggest bakery chain has announced plans to cut 820 jobs due to the ongoing pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Peel Region officials advise against large gatherings during Diwali

Here’s how Toronto, Peel Region will enforce new ‘red-level’ social gathering rules Loh says that Peel residents should limit close contacts to only people they live with and only meet anyone outside of their household for “the most essential reasons.”[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Brampton, Ont.

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Downtown Ottawa COVID-19 testing sites to open at McNabb Centre, NAC parking garage

COVID-19 assessment centre within walking distance for people who live in the downtown core later this month while the city’s drive-thru testing site will shift to the National Arts Centre as the colder weather sets in.Both sites will be run by the Ottawa Hospital, the city announced Friday.The Coventry Road drive-thu coronavirus testing centre, which has been running in the parking lot of the RCGT Stadium since late August, will close on Monday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m.

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Latest Greater Manchester coronavirus infection rates as there's good news for ALL boroughs

hereOldham has the highest rate with 677.7 per 100,000 for the same period.There were 1,607 cases recorded in the town during the week ending November 9 - which is 272 fewer than the previous week.That's the first time cases have gone down in Oldham since August 29.Stockport currently has the lowest rate in the region with 336.7 cases per 100,000 in the week ending November 9.The latest figures come as the Scientific Advisory Committee for Emergencies (Sage) said the reproduction number for coronavirus - the R value - is dropping across the UK and is potentially below one in some areas.But the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) - which reports to Sage - has warned that the reproduction rate of coronavirus must stay

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SpaceX's Musk gets mixed virus tests on eve of crew launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX chief Elon Musk may have to steer clear of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after getting mixed COVID-19 test results on the eve of his company’s second crew launch. Musk took to Twitter on Friday to say he tested positive for coronavirus, then negative twice, then positive again.

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