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Mrs.Anteater said:
Actually, at a second look, it says one has to be sick plus has to be an at risk person, so doesn’t apply to healthy people getting sick.
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No, anyone who has to miss at least 50% of their scheduled work for a week due to being sick/needing to stay at home qualifies - assuming they meet things like minimum earnings in the past. There is no need to be at risk for complications.

If not sick with COVID but choosing to isolate to avoid being exposed and missing work due to that there needs to be someone else advising that is necessary. In that case one likely needs risk factors. So say Bette at the grocery store starts on an strong immunosuppressant and covid cases in her local area skyrocket, so her doctor advises her to not work for 2 weeks, she would qualify, but does need her doctor's recommendation to qualify.
 
I still don't understand if we have Paxlovid in province yet or not.

Reported Jan 18
The first pills of Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral drug could arrive in Alberta by the end of the week, officials say.
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Reported today (Jan 30)
The first Paxlovid COVID-19 oral treatment shipment is expected to arrive in Alberta on Monday.
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edmonton.ctvnews.ca

Pfizer COVID-19 antiviral drug could arrive by end of week: Alberta Health

The first pills of Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral drug could arrive in Alberta by the end of the week, officials say.
edmonton.ctvnews.ca edmonton.ctvnews.ca
calgary.ctvnews.ca

Alberta expects first shipment of Paxlovid COVID-19 treatment on Monday

The first Paxlovid COVID-19 oral treatment shipment is expected to arrive in Alberta on Monday.
calgary.ctvnews.ca calgary.ctvnews.ca

If it hasn't arrived yet why was the federal government so slow on distributing it? It was in Canada Jan 15 or 16.
What's the information in other provinces?
 
It looks like hospitalizations may have hit their peak here, although the deaths 'help' with that stat.
I wonder though with the convoys if there will be a bit of a shoulder to the peak of both cases (will mostly be picked up by wastewater considering the demographic, especially at first, secondary spread later may lead to positive tests too) and then hospitalizations later.
 
In Ontario, they're announcing that we reached another infection peak mid-January, and they're expecting hospitalizations to raise a little more, and then peak as well. The whatever # wave (or the Omicron wave) appears to be receding.
 
BetteTheRed said:
In Ontario, they're announcing that we reached another infection peak mid-January, and they're expecting hospitalizations to raise a little more, and then peak as well. The whatever # wave (or the Omicron wave) appears to be receding.
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Not how that indicates receding when the peak is peaking still?
 
I think there are a lot more people having Omicron than is known. In NS. You are supposed to register online if you have positive rapid test, but who does? Then there are probably a lot of asymptomatic people spreading it- and if you don’t have to test for any reason, it won’t be discovered. My hunch is that it goes through schools that way.
 
I was just talking to someone here at the park. She and her husband were very sick in late December/early January. I think one of them got a test that was negative. She seems to think they had covid. She said it wasn't like anything she'd had before.
 
I just do not understand how uncaring Kenney can be.
Hospitalizations here do keep hitting new records every day, but the initial data suggests they go down until an updated number comes in a few days later.
He will be dropping the restrictions which are pretty minimal as it is.

No updates to booster doses for those who are immunocompromised, like maybe shift them up a bit before dropping restrictions.
PCR testing and at home treatment seems to be based on groups that can lobby well ie. those who are on medical treatments for things like transplants, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and IBDs. Those with immunodeficiencies? Nope, it's a smaller group.
 
ChemGal said:
I just do not understand how uncaring Kenney can be.
Hospitalizations here do keep hitting new records every day, but the initial data suggests they go down until an updated number comes in a few days later.
He will be dropping the restrictions which are pretty minimal as it is.

No updates to booster doses for those who are immunocompromised, like maybe shift them up a bit before dropping restrictions.
PCR testing and at home treatment seems to be based on groups that can lobby well ie. those who are on medical treatments for things like transplants, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and IBDs. Those with immunodeficiencies? Nope, it's a smaller group.
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Do politicians care for anything other than a singular thing ... false salvation? maybe a hang-up ... supporting evidence?
 
In any conditions and data the bull says make the dash ... separates the data from the desires ... as in a word once debated here as endogeneity!

May have something to do with electrical endogens ... once writ as djinns ... vapid nebulae! From within the headlands ...
 
For those who have not heard, Ontario has procured a supply of rapid test kits and will be distributing 5.5 million a week for free through various retail outlets. There's a list of outlets in the site.

www.ontario.ca

COVID‑19 testing and treatment

Find information on who is eligible for publicly-funded testing, where to access testing, and what treatments are available.
www.ontario.ca www.ontario.ca
 
paradox3 said:
In Walmart today they were inviting shoppers to come to the pharmacy for a booster shot. Pfizer no less!
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Still waiting. I asked about if it was still a hard timeline after Kenney's rhetoric about freedom to choose. Yes, hard timeline. Was suggested I get a convoy if I wanted it sooner.
 
Mendalla said:
For those who have not heard, Ontario has procured a supply of rapid test kits and will be distributing 5.5 million a week for free through various retail outlets. There's a list of outlets in the site.

www.ontario.ca

COVID‑19 testing and treatment

Find information on who is eligible for publicly-funded testing, where to access testing, and what treatments are available.
www.ontario.ca www.ontario.ca
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It always surprises me when I hear that other people don't have items like these. We get them free - and there seems to be a plentiful supply. We can pick them up in various locations.
 
KayTheCurler said:
It always surprises me when I hear that other people don't have items like these. We get them free - and there seems to be a plentiful supply. We can pick them up in various locations.
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There's a worldwide shortage.
They are available here when there is supply.
 
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