because of the highly contagious Delta variant. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease physician with the

Provinces in Atlantic Canada have had to dispose of thousands of doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in recent weeks after demand dried up and they expired. Prince Edward Island announced this week it had disposed of 3, 200 expired AstraZeneca doses, and Newfoundland and Labrador confirmed Thursday it has nearly 2, 900 doses that will go to waste. But an infectious disease specialist says the number of doses allowed to expire in Canada is a small price to pay to ensure there’s an adequa

Open this photo in gallery People pass by the sign of a COVID-19 immunization clinic in downtown Toronto, Canada, on July 18, 2021.... “ A case now has a context that is different depending on the immune status of the patient, ” said David Naylor, co-chair of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.... Johnson and his government are testing the theory that case counts won’t be the harbingers of severe illness and death they once were now that nearly 70 per cent of the UK’s adult population is fu