Here s What You Really Need To Get A COVID Vaccine In Ontario
An alchemy involving copious free time, a car and loads of social capital adding up to a terrible way to get jabs into the arms that need them most. Sarmishta Subramanian, Maclean s Updated
April 23, 2021
Residents of Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood, in the M3N postal code, line up at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday, April 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
The must-have item last fall in my corner of Toronto was a patio heater. Many of my friends and neighbours had either acquired one or were desperately trolling through shopping sites trying to find a retailer with one in stock. I could rest easy; I had purchased mine early, having learned my lesson from the toilet paper aisles at grocery stores in March and the empty shelves at gardening centres last summer.
This Toronto hospital used to have a farm for tuberculosis patients
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A Toronto man recently rediscovered the remnants of a long-forgotten part of the city s history a farm attached to a hospital.
John Maniezzo is a history buff who collects photos and information about many Toronto neighbourhoods on his Facebook page Toronto Old Districts.
Recently, he heard about a farm affiliated with a Toronto hospital near the Humber River in the Mount Dennis community and wanted to learn more. They had pigs and chickens and they grew their own vegetables for the patients, Maniezzo told blogTO.
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How virtual rehab is bridging pandemic gaps in patient care and research A physiotherapist leads chair-based exercises for virtual rehabilitation at West Park Healthcare Centre (photo courtesy Temerty Faculty of Medicine)
What if you experienced a stroke and needed physical and cognitive therapy – but hospitals and clinics had suspended these vital rehabilitation services due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Enter Mark Bayley of the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, whose work focuses on brain injury, stroke and multiple sclerosis.
“After COVID-19 hit, people weren’t able to get the usual outpatient rehab to optimize their recovery and health,” says Bayley, an associate professor in the division of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the department of medicine.