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An anti-lockdown protest at Queen s Park on April 25 attracted about 200 demonstrators.
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, after 10 months of lockdowns, social distancing and other restrictions, people are exhausted and confused and looking for any information that tells them there’s a way out of this thing.
And that desperation leads a lot of people to fall for COVID-19 misinformation that’s running rampant online, which is why Nova Scotia Senator Stan Kutcher and the University of Alberta’s Timothy Caulfield created Science Up First.
A collective of concerned scientists, researchers, information experts, health-care providers, science communicators and organizations, Science Up First is here – on the web, on Facebook, on Twitter and on Instagram – to push back against the falsehoods by offering hard facts and reality-based information to anyone who’s willing to see it.
Over 200 doctors call for changes in Ontario long-term care
3 pm A group of more than 200 doctors and researchers are calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to end for-profit long-term care and address staffing shortages in the sector.
The group, Doctors For Justice in LTC, calls COVID-19’s impact on the long-term care sector a “humanitarian crisis.”
In an open letter, the doctors say the province has not learned from the first wave and say the second wave has continued to see delayed responses to outbreaks, poor transparency, insufficient infection control practices and staffing shortages.
“While many countries had challenges managing the rapid spread of COVID-19, Canada had the highest proportion of LTC deaths as compared to other [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] countries,” the letter states. “In Ontario, this resulted in almost 2,000 deaths.