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I can't make fun of this; its just disgusting:
Such bullshit. If I, or any construction worker in this city did something like this, we would go to jail.Several people apparently thought the lesson from 'Chair Girl' was that throwing things off hirise balconies is not only ok; but won't attract adverse attention.
All the while holding a gathering (party) that isn't permissible in light of Covid. Lots of charges laid. More should follow.
Eleven charged after bottles hurled from condo balcony during large gathering amid COVID-19 restrictions
Police said four people were charged criminally, and seven others were fined for illegally gathering while the stay-at-home order is in effect in Toronto.www.thestar.com
Such bullshit. If I, or any construction worker in this city did something like this, we would go to jail.
They will probably get off lightly just like Chair Girl.
Health Canada has approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, clearing the way for millions of more inoculations in Canada.
Canada has secured access to 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/astrazeneca-approved-1.5929050
Of note, efficacy is pegged at 62%; which if accurate, is certainly better than zero; but well below the approved leaders to date which are in the ~90% range.
I have been reviewing all the clinical trial data that I can on the various vaccines; all of the data is problematic in places.
Comparatively small sample sizes, comparatively short windows of time; and quite importantly, rates of efficacy that seem to vary materially by age cohort in many cases.
That isn't to suggest this isn't progress; or to be a 'downer' but simply to point out it isn't necessarily the 'win' that its being billed as either.
…Which while not as good as the mRNA vaccines, is still in line with the best side of our annual influenza vaccine efficacy.Of note, efficacy is pegged at 62%; which if accurate, is certainly better than zero; but well below the approved leaders to date which are in the ~90% range.
That's what I heard on the news, i.e., that they would be using it for under 65. And hopefully high risk individuals younger than that will be given one of the higher efficacy vaccines.
Ontario’s for-profit long-term-care homes have reported far more COVID-19 deaths on average than non-profit and municipal facilities, even accounting for factors the industry has repeatedly claimed explain the long-standing disparity, a Star investigation finds.
For months, the industry has insisted that the reason for-profit homes have consistently reported worse outcomes than non-profit and municipal homes has nothing to do with ownership but is the result of other factors, such as the rate of COVID-19 infections in the surrounding community and the fact that for-profits own more older facilities.
A new Star investigation shows that even after accounting for those factors — and several others — for-profit homes have still seen many more deaths per capita.
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Older homes and those located in areas with higher infection rates have clearly seen elevated death tolls. The Star’s analysis does not dispute this claim. What it does show is that for-profit status has also been undeniably associated with worse outcomes throughout Ontario’s COVID-19 pandemic.
Several experts who have seen the Star’s analysis say the findings suggest the for-profit sector’s higher death rates cannot be fully explained by other factors.
The Star analysis compares Ontario’s detailed home-by-home records of COVID-19 outbreaks across several different factors, from the age of a home, to local infection rates, to the size of the facility, among others. Whether looking at those factors in isolation or in dozens of combinations, for-profit homes reported the highest rate of deaths per registered bed in virtually every case.
For-profit homes had the worst outcomes in both hard-hit cities where the virus raged and in communities left relatively unscathed; worst, whether run by sole operators or by large chains; worst among facilities with a handful of beds and those with hundreds. For-profits also reported more deaths in older homes, in which dated design standards have been blamed for some of Ontario’s worst outbreaks, and in homes built to newer, stricter regulations.
The pattern is consistent in the data from the entire pandemic and is even clearer in Ontario’s second wave, during which there was an even larger gap between the poorer outcomes at the for-profits relative to non-profit and municipal facilities...
For-profit nursing homes in Ontario say ownership has nothing to do with their higher COVID-19 death rates. A Star analysis finds that’s not the case
From link.
Ontario for-profit LTC homes have seen far more deaths from COVID-19 on a per-bed basis than non-profit and municipal homes
That's what I heard on the news, i.e., that they would be using it for under 65. And hopefully high risk individuals younger than that will be given one of the higher efficacy vaccines.
There aren't questions about its "efficacy" at all. It's documented and meets any standard needed for approval by Health Canada.With all the questions around efficacy and large amounts of people snubbing it in Europe, Health Canada should never have approved it.
I get we need more supply but there are are far too many questions regarding efficacy to make it a viable option.