Tag: COVID-19

Video calls became a lifeline for many people during the restrictions of the early COVID-19 pandemic, allowing families to catch up, employees to work and patients to meet their doctors, all without ever leaving home.

Three years into this pandemic, most Canadians have taken off their masks and many have stopped getting booster shots.

University of Queensland researchers have found nicotine consumption in Australia increased by 30 per cent during the early stages of COVID-19.

A pacing rehabilitation programme that helps people with long COVID reduce their symptoms and increase activity levels has shown “impressive” results, say scientists.

The world’s largest trial into the effect of multiple interventions for critically ill adults with COVID-19 on longer-term outcomes has released results from the 180-day (six month) follow-up of 4869 critically ill patients.

People with diabetes were among the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new global study, co-authored by a Western professor, examines the impact of COVID-19...

Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a series of new information tools to help parents with questions about their children and COVID-19.

Surgical masks are not inferior to N95 masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 to health-care workers, says a study led by McMaster University researchers.

Conspiracy theories about monkeypox are spreading as fast as the virus itself, mirroring the proliferation of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from the University of Alberta.

Lockdowns were lonely and isolating for many, but an imaginative bunch of Bachelor of Arts students discovered how their creative projects fostered a sense of togetherness.