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The World Health Organization and partners[i] have issued an urgent call for concrete action to better protect health and care workers worldwide from COVID-19 and other health issues.

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One Covid-19 vaccine may protect against other coronaviruses: Study

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Current COVID-19 vaccine coverage leaves Canadians ‘better protected’ heading into winter, Tam says

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COVID-19 surges shows continued need for protective measures: doctors

public health measures as the country heads into the fall and winter, doctors say as COVID-19 cases surge in some provinces.Throughout the country, provinces and territories have been seeing COVID-19’s fourth wave play out differently.In Alberta and Saskatchewan, health-care systems have been strained to the point where the Canadian Armed Forces have been sent in to help. New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories are also clamping down to calm a recent jump in infections.Experts say those spikes show a continued need for protective measures as the colder weather settles in across Canada.

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Best way to keep kids in school, protect those under 12 is for adults to get COVID-19 vaccination: Dr. Njoo

According to Canada’s deputy chief public health officer Dr.

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CDC: Moderna COVID vaccine most protective against hospital cases

All three COVID-19 vaccines currently in use in the United States offer significant protection against hospitalization for COVID-19, but Moderna is the most effective among US adults who are not immunocompromised, according to new data published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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Ontario NDP calling for COVID-19 safety zone legislation to protect people at health-care facilities, small businesses

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, protests have become more common. While the causes and reasons might vary, Ontario NDP members say it’s time for the Ford government to step up and do more to protect people following public health guidelines so they don’t become targets.

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COVID-19 vaccines protect against severe illness during Delta

A trio of studies in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) today show that COVID vaccines protect very well against the Delta (B1617.2) variant, with unvaccinated people having 5 times the risk of infection and more than 10 times the risk of hospitalization or death compared with vaccinated people.

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Ontario doing “everything” it can to protect schools from COVID-19: Premier Ford

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a province-wide COVID-19 vaccine certificate program on Wednesday that begins Sept. 22 and was asked why schools weren’t part of the program.

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Russia’s Sputnik V protects against severe COVID-19 from Delta variant, study shows

Olga DobrovidovaRussia’s Sputnik V vaccine is holding up well against the Delta variant, a paper posted yesterday on the preprint server medRxiv shows. The study of nearly 14,000 people showed the two-dose vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization with COVID-19 by 81% and helped prevent severe lung injury.Surges of COVID-19 in many countries and an increasing number of “breakthrough” cases in vaccinated people have raised concerns that vaccines don’t protect as well against Delta as against earlier strains, or that vaccines’ protection may be short-lived.

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Study: Moderna COVID-19 vaccine protects against delta variant up to 6 months

company news release. The study, published in the journal Science on Aug. 12, noted that antibodies created by Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were able to provide continued protection against the virus six months after patients received their second dose. "We are pleased with these new data showing that people vaccinated with two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine maintained antibodies through six months, including against variants of concern such as the Delta variant.

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Study finds COVID-19 booster dose helps protect transplant patients

FILE - A nurse gives a dose of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 to a man at a vaccination center on Aug. 11, 2021, in Medellin, Colombia.

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Moderna recommends covid-19 vaccine booster to protect against new variants

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COVID-19 vaccine: If you had no side effects, are you protected?

21 COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use across the globe. In the United Kingdom, over 36,500,000 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to date.

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Doctor-delivered COVID messages may boost protective steps

A JAMA Network Open study today describes successful deployment of a video tool to improve COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs, and risk-reduction behaviors of Black and White adults.

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COVID-19 vaccines shown to protect at-risk patients

The Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines are as effective at preventing symptomatic illness in people with underlying medical conditions as in the rest of the population, finds a real-world study of more than 1 million at-risk UK residents.

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Flu vaccine protects against severe effects of Covid-19: Study

COVID-19 who had been vaccinated against flu were also less likely to visit the emergency department and be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), the researchers said.

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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses 94% protective against death in 65+ group: U.K. data

COVID-19 vaccine gives an estimated 94 per cent protection against death from the coronavirus disease in people over 65, Public Health England said on Thursday in a weekly surveillance report of real-world data.

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Will one dose of a two-dose Covid-19 vaccine protect me?

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Study discovers compounds that protect lung cells, may block COVID virus

COVID-19 from entering cells and protect the air cells (alveoli) of the lung.

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Protecting young children from COVID-19

With COVID-19 vaccines not expected for children under the age of 12 until the fall, families may be wondering how to keep their little ones safe as the province begins to reopen. Caryn Lieberman reports.

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COVID-19: How to protect children who are too young for a vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine.“I just avoid the bigger stores, like the dollar store, the grocery store, that I know are more full,” she said.Her son Sebastien is also too young to wear a face mask, so O’Keefe said she spends as much time as possible outdoors at the park.“I’ll avoid the playground a little bit more if it’s busy,” she said.Finally, O’Keefe is doing her part to protect her son and three-year-old daughter, by getting vaccinated.

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Common cold virus may protect from Covid-19 infection: Yale medicine professor

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High COVID vaccine uptake may protect the unvaccinated

Higher levels of COVID-19 vaccination in a population are tied to lower rates of infection in unvaccinated youth younger than 16 years, who were ineligible for the vaccine at the time of the trial, according to an observational, real-world, Israeli study today in Nature Medicine.

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COVID-19: Absence of legal requirements doesn’t mean we have to stop protecting each other according to Hinshaw

Alberta’s top doctor Dr. Deena Hinshaw explains that while COVID-19 health restrictions may be dropped this summer it’s still important to continue to protect one another.

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Health Matters: Mothers turning to breast milk to protect children too young for COVID-19 vaccines

Health Matters May 27: COVID-19 vaccines are not yet approved for children under age 12. Now, some vaccinated mothers are turning to a natural source of immunity for their young ones: breast milk. Su-Ling Goh reports.

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Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12

to be used starting at age 12.Moderna aims to be next in line, saying it will submit its teen data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other global regulators early next month.The company studied more than 3,700 12- to 17-year-olds.

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Protect senior citizens, kids who lost parents to Covid: Centre tells states

pandemic may have, particularly, on vulnerable groups, gave high priority to the matter and requested States/ Union Territories to put in place adequate mechanisms for ensuring dedicated support and assistance in a timely manner to such persons," MHA said.The letter said that in order to meet the new challenges arising out of the recent wave of Covid-19 affliction, "it is requested to undertake an immediate review of the existing facilities for vulnerable groups inter-alia on the lines of the measures given in the various advisories issued by the MHA, especially for children who have been orphaned.""Senior citizens who may require timely assistance and support (medical as well as safety and security), and members of scheduled castes/

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Delaying 2nd Pfizer vaccine dose may protect better against COVID-19: study

COVID-19 vaccine generates antibody responses three-and-a-half times larger in older people when a second dose is delayed to 12 weeks after the first, a British study said.The study released on Friday is the first to directly compare immune responses of the Pfizer shot from the three-week dosing interval tested in clinical trials, and the extended 12-week interval that British officials recommend in order to give more vulnerable people at least some protection quickly.After Britain moved to extend the interval between doses, Pfizer and vaccine partner BioNTech said there was no data to back up the move.

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Protect yourself from cyber fraud in the time of covid-19

Caution: Book a test with a lab approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research. “If you come across a new lab, do an online search by typing the company name and adding ‘fraud’ to it.

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COVID-19 vaccines may protect many, but not all, people with suppressed immune systems

Jennifer Couzin-FrankelScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.For Eva Schrezenmeier, a nephrologist at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, the news was sobering: Among 40 patients with transplanted kidneys at her hospital who’d been vaccinated against COVID-19, only one was churning out the antibodies that would likely protect him from the disease. Because transplant patients take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system so it doesn’t attack a donated organ, her team expected diminished responses to a vaccine.

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$26M for upgrades for Peterborough area public, Catholic schools to protect against COVID-19

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School boards in Simcoe County, Muskoka receive $27M to protect against COVID-19

COVID-19.The funding for local school boards will support building retrofits and upgrades, possibly including HVAC renovations to improve air quality, water bottle refilling stations to improve access to safe drinking water and space reconfigurations, such as new walls or doors, to enhance physical distancing. COVID-19: Adults 50+ in South Simcoe ‘hot spot’ included in Phase 2 of Ontario vaccine plan “The infrastructure investment makes more upgrades possible, to support and protect both staff and students in our school communities,” Barrie–Springwater–Oro-Medonte MPP Doug Downey said in a statement.“This funding means our children and teachers will be able to return to safer and healthier schools.

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Exercise may strongly protect against poor COVID-19 outcomes

Regular physical activity may substantially reduce the risk of COVID-19–related hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and death, suggests an observational study of nearly 50,000 people published yesterday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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Newborns of COVID-vaccinated moms may be protected from infection

Two new Israeli studies find that COVID-19 antibodies pass robustly from mothers to their infants in breast milk for 6 weeks after vaccination and that no infants breastfed by their coronavirus-positive mothers had evidence of infection.

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Widow pleads with people to protect themselves from COVID-19

The youngest person in the Edmundston region has died at the age of 38 within days of being diagnosed with the disease, and now his widow is pleading with people to protect themselves from COVID-19. Callum Smith has more.

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COVID-19 vaccine is safe during pregnancy and may also protect baby, study shows

Northwestern Medicine says expecting mothers can also pass on protective antibodies to their newborns."This is a really great way to passively protect your baby because, unfortunately, this virus isn’t going away anytime soon," said senior author Dr.

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All B.C. part-time and full-time workers will get job-protected leave for COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine.Under the Employment Standards Act, the government said workers will be able to take “the time needed” to travel and receive the vaccine or take a dependent family member to receive the vaccine. British Columbia considers paid time off for workers to get COVID-19 vaccine “I encourage all workers to get your vaccine as soon as it’s your turn,” Harry Bains, Minister of Labour said in a release.

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COVID-19: High vitamin D levels may protect Black people

Vitamin D plays a wide range of roles in the body, including regulating calcium levels, maintaining healthy bones and teeth, and supporting the immune system. In addition to getting vitamin D from dietary sources, the body can make its own in the skin through exposure to sunlight.However, it can be difficult for people with dark skin and those with low exposure to sunlight to maintain sufficiently high levels of the vitamin, especially during the winter months.Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment.One study found that, overall, about 42% of people in the United States were deficient in vitamin D. The figure rose to 82% among Black people and

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COVID-19 vaccine is 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant: Pfizer

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Covid-19 vaccinations of pregnant mothers also protect newborns, studies suggest

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COVID-19: Pfizer says trial shows vaccine is 100% effective in protecting kids 12-15

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on Wednesday said their COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and produced a robust antibody response in 12 to 15-year-olds, following a trial of 2,260 adolescents.

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Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe, strongly protective in kids as young as 12

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Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine protects younger teens

Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall.

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Howie Mandel Protects Himself from COVID-19 in Astronaut Helmet While Out in L.A.

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Study finds pregnant, lactating women protected by COVID-19 vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns

the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The new research, published Thursday in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, looked at 131 women who either received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

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Nearly 2.8 million Floridians fully protected from COVID-19 as US could see 4th vaccine

ORLANDO, Fla. – With nearly 45 million people in the United States fully vaccinated from the coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country could soon add one more vaccine to its arsenal to fend off the pandemic.

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North Bay, Parry Sound, Timiskaming and Porcupine districts moving to COVID-19 yellow-protect zone

COVID-19 response framework on Monday, March 22.The Ontario government said the decision to move the three regions to the yellow zone was made in consultation with local health officers, based on public health indicator trends, as well local context and conditions.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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