New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday she would end the state’s mask mandate for most indoor public places except schools, health care and correctional facilities. Her state would stop requiring people to wear a mask or prove they…

New modelling from Imperial College London, using data from England, shows the Omicron COVID-19 variant largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses. It estimates the risk of re-infection from Omicron is more than five times greater than…

On this week’s edition of The West Block, host Mercedes Stephenson speaks with one of the country’s top medical minds — Dr. Peter Jüni, director of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table — about how Canadians should respond to the evolving…

Distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is still on hold in Canada, but the National Advisory Council on Immunization (NACI) is now recommending it for Canadians 30 and up. Yet the committee is also saying others might want…

Professor Roger Seheult, MD and John Campbell, RN, PhD discuss important COVID-19 questions, review lessons learned from 2020, and look ahead to potential developments in 2021. Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at He is an Associate…

Most infected people, around 80 percent, will have mild symptoms which disappear after a few days. But coronaviruses can multiply fast… spreading from the throat to the lungs. And that’s how they can infect lung cells until pneumonia sets in.…