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By Caitlyn Lepp
Health professionals and Canadian scientists are taking to social media to stop the spread of misinformation and inaccurate theories about COVID-19 and vaccines.
The experts use the hashtag #ScienceUpFirst to provide science-based evidence on social media.
Dr. Krishana Sankar, the project manager and a steering committee member for ScienceUpFirst, says misinformation impacts the health and safety of Canadians.
“Whether we are taking it to different social media platforms where we are seeing lots of misinformation being floated around and shared, we are doing this independently,” Sankar said on Wednesday’s Brent Loucks Show. “And as much as that was great, obviously it was just a drop in the ocean.”
Health officials in the Canadian province of Ontario thought large, central clinics would be the most efficient way to get staff at long-term care homes vaccinated quickly, protecting elderly residents most at risk of severe COVID-19 and death.
Canada has received more than 430,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But as of Thursday, only about 45 per cent of those doses have gone into arms. Those numbers are sourced from the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group, made up of public health experts and data scientists from the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph.
Provincial governments across the country have been roundly criticized for not administering the vaccines they got in mid December quickly enough. Today on Front Burner, Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard and scientist Krishana Sankar, on why the rollout has been so challenging and what can be done about it.
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In today s Morning Brief, we look at whether the curfew Quebec is bringing in starting Saturday might help fight against rising cases of COVID-19. We also have the story of home family and friends are honouring the victims of Iran s Flight 752 air disaster.
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Will a curfew help get the pandemic under control in Quebec?
Starting Saturday, residents in much of Quebec will be prohibited from going outside at night. A new curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. will run for four weeks the first of its kind in Canada since the coronavirus pandemic was declared.