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• Ontario ICU closed for a month has no date set to reopen

  A month after an Ontario intensive care unit temporarily closed due to a “significant staff shortage,” the hospital has no timeline for when the ICU will re-open its doors.

  

• What you can do to help mitigate shortages of fever and pain relievers

  Pharmacists and health care professionals are asking the public to only buy what they need and to be up to date on all their essential immunization shots to help with Tylenol, Advil shortages.

  

• Study finds 3 drugs, including ivermectin, did not prevent COVID hospitalization, death

  A new study has found that three drugs, including the antiparasitic ivermectin, had no significant effects in treating low oxygen levels or preventing ER visits, hospitalization or death due to COVID-19.

  

• U.S. offers extra monkeypox vaccine doses for gay pride events

  The U.S. is setting aside an extra 50,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine for places with upcoming gay pride events, health officials said Thursday.

  

• Discovery of 'weak spot' in COVID-19 variants could lead to better treatment options

  A discovery by a team of B.C. researchers may lead to improved COVID-19 treatment options that are effective against several variants of the disease.

• Canada-wide shortage of liquid Children's Tylenol now also impacting chewables

  A nationwide shortage of liquid Children’s Tylenol is also impacting generic chewables, with Quebec-based Laboratoire Riva reporting a shortage due to rising demand.

• Africa CDC says renaming of monkeypox variants curbs stigma

  The head of Africa's public health agency says he's 'really pleased' that the World Health Organization is renaming the strains of the monkeypox disease to remove references to African regions amid concerns about stigmatization.

• WHO: World coronavirus cases fall 24 per cent; deaths rise in Asia

  New coronavirus cases reported globally dropped nearly a quarter in the last week while deaths fell 6 per cent but were still higher in parts of Asia, according to a report Thursday on the pandemic by the World Health Organization.

• First possible case of human-to-dog monkeypox transmission 'not surprising,' WHO says

  The first possible case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox -- recently reported in a couple and their pet in Paris -- had been a theoretical risk up till now, said Dr. Rosamund Lewis, technical lead on the monkeypox response for the World Health Organization.

• Majority of people with Omicron don't know they have it: study

  A new study has found that more than half of people infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were unaware they had it. Undiagnosed infections could be the reason why the variant spread so rapidly, according to researchers.

• COVID-19 hospitalizations due to Omicron are vastly underreported: grassroots organization

  Analysis by a grassroots organization of scientists reveals hospitalizations from the Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 could be 70 per cent higher than what has been reported since December.

• New York City reports 2 human cases of the West Nile virus as the city sees record number of infected mosquitoes

  Two human cases of West Nile virus have been reported in New York as the virus has been detected in a record number of mosquitoes in the city, health officials said Tuesday.