Tag: health

#MesMundialAlzheimer: Cuidar do Cuidador

(Revista Amar / José Carreira) Não me canso de repetir, a doença de Alzheimer e outras demências não afetam apenas a pessoa que está doente. Associado a cada diagnóstico, a cada pessoa que perde, pouco a pouco, as suas memórias, há centenas de histórias. São as histórias dos cônjuges, dos filhos, dos amigos…São as pessoas que cuidam, as faces ocultas da doença… Read More in Revista Amar >>> 

A virus that has a fatality rate higher than COVID-19 

TORONTO – In 2018, 835,175 Ontarians were recorded as “multiple property owners” by Statistics Canada.  In July 2020, we were just getting over the First Wave and CTV was reporting:  “Cottage real estate market heats up with more Canadians working remotely”.  In April 2021, the Globe & Mail reported that “in Toronto, as many as 1 in 5 homeowners own more than one property”

TCDSB, children’s health at risk

TORONTO – In the midst of a thousand unknowns in a week in Ontario schools reopen. The uncertainty about what this school year will be weighs on parents, children, teachers, school staff. Online or face-to-face lessons, protocols – still unclear – to follow, vaccinations, a wave of Covid, the fourth, which generates anxiety and now also the problem of federal elections. 

Public Health Ontario: “Without children, herd immunity is a utopia”

TORONTO – Due to the increased transmissibility of the Delta B.1.617.2 variant, now dominant in Ontario and much of the world, the percentage of the population that needs to be vaccinated to reach a point where the long-term spread of the virus slows down, now exceeds the number of people medically entitled to vaccination. “The critical threshold for vaccination should be at least 90% of the Ontario population and more than 100% of the vaccine-eligible population,” says Public Health Ontario.