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Persistent questions on whether rare but serious blood clots among those getting the AstraZeneca jab against COVID-19 are more frequent than in the general population, and what causes them if they are, have continued to undermine confidence in the beleaguered vaccine. ....
The French city of Lyon s main stadium opened as a mass vaccination centre during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes or other sites as France tried to speed up shots amid a new rush of coronavirus cases. ....
French hospitals brought in extra staff for the Easter holiday weekend to cope with growing numbers of virus patients, while travellers converged on train stations and highways to flee big cities before new nationwide restrictions take hold. ....
TORONTO Ontario is now providing a more accurate picture of how many people sickened by COVID-19 are ending up in intensive care units, by including in the daily counts patients who are still requiring care in ICUs, but are no longer testing positive. Up until now, patients who eventually tested negativeâbut were still in the ICU due to COVID-19 complicationsâwere taken out of the provinceâs reported daily total. This resulted in a lower reported number of patients who were actually still in the ICU due to the virus. With the newly updated numbers, there are an additional 27 patients being reported in intensive care. ....