Pandemic

Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Throughout the afternoon caregivers will place paper bags containing LED candles along the garden path outside PeaceHealth Southwest’s Firstenburg Tower PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center caregivers will create a luminary lighting display Thursday evening May 13 to honor the healthcare heroes who have courageously served patients…

Michael Woods/Associated Press It's been nearly two years since the last College World Series as the 2020 season was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. But soon, the top programs in the country will be battling it out to try to win the national championship as the 2021 campaign nears…

Retired nurse Teresa Meierhofer at her home in Pritchard, B.C., on May 5, 2021. Kathryn Learie/The Globe and Mail As the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing a redeployment of health resources, nurses are upset that doctors are getting paid up to five times as much as them for doing the same…

Food safety professionals were already “in the belly of the beast” before the coronavirus pandemic hit and they continue to be in the hot seat, according to Craig Wilson of Costco. Wilson gave the keynote address this morning at the 2021 Food Safety Summit. The virtual session today, May 11,…

France has recorded a historic decrease in acute gastroenteritis that public health officials have linked to measures in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the first lockdown because of coronavirus very low levels were recorded from March 2020 in the 2019 and 2020 winter monitoring season that ran from mid-November…

SEATTLE -- Washington state’s Department of Health says preliminary data shows more people died of drug overdoses in 2020 than any other year in at least the last decade. Authorities say the effects of the coronavirus pandemic likely led to a drug use surge. The Seattle Times reports fatal drug…

May 10, 2021Updated: May 10, 2021 1:13 p.m. 1of3In this aerial photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, base camp is seen on May 25, 2020. China will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by climbers…

The US is approaching a turning point where Covid vaccinations are sharply reducing infection and hospitalization rates, key figures in the fight against the disease said on Sunday, though the Biden administration is facing mounting pressure to do more to help other nations still in the grip of the disease.…

The monthly employment report from the Department of Labor may be the most closely watched economic statistic there is: investors, economists, and government officials all examine it for information about how the U.S. economy is doing. But it is far from being an entirely reliable indicator. In May of 2016,…

By any financial measure, TFI International Inc. has had a great pandemic. Revenue at the Montreal-based trucking conglomerate, excluding fuel surcharges, rose in 2020. Net income jumped by double digits, in part because TFI moved quickly to cut its work force expenses. The company made a string of 13 acquisitions…