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COVID-19: On its 3rd year – A Review

TORONTO – All years start off with a bang. The firecrackers, the confetti. We all look up at Times Square and wait for the ball to drop. And in 2020, indeed, the ball dropped on all of us. Barely a quarter into the year, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) dropped that word on us: “pandemic”. The world, as we knew it, had capsized. There go our big plans. And our even bigger dreams, now reduced to abstract concepts. 

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“Influenza e RSV, mascherine quasi inutili”

TORONTO – Mascherine indispensabili per frenare la diffusione del Covid-19, ma pressoché inutili in presenza di influenza e virus respiratorio sinciziale (RSV): è quanto emerge da un documento redatto da Public Health Ontario su richiesta del Chief Medical Officer of Health, dottor Kieran Moore, nello scorso mese di novembre ma reso noto soltanto ieri, quando è stato pubblicato dalla Canadian PressRead More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

“Flu and RSV, mask almost useless”

TORONTO – Masks essential to curb the spread of Covid-19, but almost useless in the presence of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): this is what emerges from a document prepared by Public Health Ontario at the request of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, last November but made public only today, when it was published by the Canadian Press (more…)