A new mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) strain has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a team of Dalhousie researchers and local scientists.
Nova Scotia's health unions say long-standing staffing shortages in emergency rooms are a key reason two hospital managers last week warned that some patients may be dying from long wait times.
Being able to tell the difference between whether a person has died from COVID-19 or a separate cause while infected with the virus is important in understanding the overall trajectory of the pandemic, but is easier said than done, experts say.
As more of Canada s population becomes vaccinated, several provinces are seeing that COVID-19-related hospitalizations are made up of a large number of vaccinated patients. The same trend also appears when analyzing COVID-19-related deaths.