Posted: Apr 07, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 7
Ontario woman says months-long symptoms after COVID-19 improved after vaccination
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1:01Guelph, Ont., resident Elaine McCartney has been coping with symptoms following a probable case of COVID-19 roughly a year ago. Now, she explains how she s finally starting to feel better after getting vaccinated.1:01
We ve all seen misinformation online, but does reporting it actually do anything? The world s social media giants promised to crack down on harmful COVID-19 misinformation that has proliferated since the pandemic began, but a Marketplace investigation found that when problematic posts were flagged, most weren t labelled or removed. Between Feb. 3 and Feb. 16,
Marketplace producers combed through Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter and used the user tools to flag and report more than 800 posts that breach each company s policies that cover, among other things, posting misinformation. The result: about 12 per cent of the posts were labelled with warnings or taken down entirely. That number jumped to 53 per cent only after
A year into pandemic, long-haul COVID-19 sufferers still struggle to get care
With provincial and federal governments focused on urgent pandemic priorities such as vaccination, prevention and acute care, people suffering debilitating symptoms in the aftermath of their COVID-19 infections are left with few care options and left out of the majority of pandemic-related planning and spending, some experts say.
Social Sharing All the scary stuff came quite a while after the initial infection, one long-haul COVID sufferer says
Posted: Apr 01, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 1
Before contracting COVID-19 in March 2020, Sonja Mally could hike for 10 hours. Now that she suffers debilitating symptoms as a COVID-19 long-hauler, she has spent months training her body to tolerate two-kilometre walks near her home. (Sam Nar/CBC)