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…
The world is in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic. As WHO and partners work together on the response — tracking the pandemic, advising on critical interventions, distributing vital medical supplies to those in need— they are racing to develop…
Most vaccines take years to design, test and manufacture, but with coronavirus, it’s only taken months for several pharmaceutical companies to come out with a range of potential vaccines. (Subscribe: The breakneck speed has inevitably led some people to ask…
