Category: Covid-19 Updates

Covid-19, “misinformation has killed 2,800 people”

TORONTO – Fake news, testimonials and personal narratives used to suggest a distorted interpretation of reality and social networks used as a means of spreading false information: this and much more is discussed in the report drawn up by the Council of Canadian Academies, a non-profit organization that examines complex scientific topics of public interest. Including Covid-19, as in the case of “Fault Lines” (Expert Panel on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Science and Health Misinformation), a work supported by a gigantic bibliography (over sixty pages of references) from which it clearly emerges that misinformation on the coronavirus has done great damage to Canadian society, contributing to more than 2,800 deaths and an estimated $30 million in hospital visits and intensive care. Deaths that could have been avoided and money that could have been spent elsewhere.  (more…)

Covid-19 in Canada: more than 50,000 deaths since 2020

TORONTO – January 25, 2020: a man in his 50s arrives in Toronto from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic, and becomes the first “presumed” case of the new coronavirus in Canada. Exactly three years have passed and since then more than 50,000 Canadians have died after contracting Covid-19, according to data released Monday by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Today, January 24, at 12.20pm, the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, constantly updated, reported (for Canada) 50,304.  (more…)

Covid, sprecati miliardi in aiuti e vaccini

TORONTO – Il governo federale canadese è riuscito a distribuire rapidamente i vaccini anti-Covid ed elargire i benefici per la pandemia per aiutare le singole persone e le imprese, ma ha sprecato milioni di dosi e ha concesso miliardi di benefici a destinatari non idonei: è quanto ha affermato ieri l’Auditor General, Karen Hogan, che ha dato al governo guidato da Justin Trudeau una “pagella” sulla gestione della pandemia… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>