Author of the article: Peter Hum
Publishing date: Apr 27, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 5 minute read • Noor Food Market general manager Nadin Kara donated a food basket, similar to the one shown, to a woman who appealed to several Ottawa food businesses this month looking for handouts. Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2021. Photo by Errol McGihon /Errol McGihon
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Ottawa’s restaurants were alerted this week about an alleged scam after a woman repeatedly pleaded poverty and requested free food and meals for herself and her boyfriend through social media messages.
The woman’s appeals to restaurants from Kanata to Riverside South to downtown were first publicized Sunday on a Facebook page for Ottawa’s food and beverage industry. By Monday morning, Ottawa’s business improvement areas were notified about what Michelle Groulx, executive director of the Ottawa Coalition of BIAs, alleged is “a restaurant free food scam.”
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December 18, 2020 (BRONX, NY) People hospitalized with COVID-19 and neurological problems including stroke and confusion, have a higher risk of dying than other COVID-19 patients, according to a study published online today by researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the journal
Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. These findings have the potential to identify and focus treatment efforts on individuals most at risk and could decrease COVID-19 deaths.
The study looked at data from 4,711 COVID-19 patients who were admitted to Montefiore during the six-week period between March 1, 2020 and April 16, 2020. Of those patients, 581 (12%) had neurological problems serious enough to warrant brain imaging. These individuals were compared with 1,743 non-neurological COVID-19 patients of similar age and disease severity who were admitted during the same period.