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Calgary teen punches ticket to national pandemic management science fair
14-year-old Rachel Simantov poses for a photo with her MacBook at her home in SW. The teenager from Calgary is heading to the national science fair for a COVID coding software project she has developed. Brendan Miller / Postmedia Brendan Miller / Postmedia
Combining aspects of science, finance and social justice, the Calgary teenager’s project, which outlined a framework for optimal pandemic management, won her a place at Canada’s largest youth science fair.
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After receiving several awards at the Calgary Youth Fair, 9th-grader at the Calgary Jewish Academy Rachel Simantov hopes the chance to present her work at the Canadian Science Fair is the first step in helping more people gain access to COVID. -19 vaccines worldwide.
The 14-year-old developed an algorithm that she said could help employees find the most optimal and cost-effective methods of implementing vaccines and drugs for all infectious diseases, increasing the ability of countries to send medical fighters to regions in need. -Many of that.
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Pfizer’s Paxlovid test case for the treatment of long-term COVID
Reports of two patients who found relief from prolonged COVID after taking Pfizer Inc’s antiviral Paxlovid, including a researcher who tested it on themselves, provide intriguing evidence from clinical trials to help people with disabilities, experts say. and defenders.
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The researcher said that the symptoms of her chronic fatigue, which “I felt like I was hit by a truck”, disappeared after taking oral therapy with two drugs.
Long-term COVID is an impending health crisis that is estimated to affect up to 30% of people infected with coronavirus. This can last for months, leaving many people unable to work. More than 200 symptoms are associated with the condition, including pain, fatigue, brain fog, difficulty breathing and exhaustion after minimal amounts of physical activity.
Dr Stephen Deeks, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (USSF) and an expert in HIV research, said pharmaceutical companies tend to reject cases from a single patient. But such cases have helped conduct research on HIV treatment, and Deeks believes that these cases of Paxlovid could do the same for long-term COVID.
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There is no access to Paxlovid, says a woman from Calgary with weakened immunity
PHOTO PHOTO: Paxlovid Coronavirus Pill (COVID-19) seen in a box at Misericordia Hospital in Grosseto, Italy, February 8, 2022. Photo by REUTERS / Jennifer Lorenzini
Access to an antiviral drug that significantly reduces the risk of severe COVID-19 is inadequate, said an immunocompromised woman from Calgary who had trouble receiving treatment.
Yvette Peters tested positive for COVID-19 in a home rapid test on Thursday and immediately set out to obtain a prescription for Paxlovid from the province. She said she confirmed her diagnosis with a provincial PCR test and called the province’s special Health Link line to access the drug, but was unable to fill out a prescription.
As a breast cancer patient receiving immunosuppressive chemotherapy, Peters meets Alberta’s current eligibility requirements for Paxlovid.
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Paxlovid is an oral medicine that has been found in clinical trials to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death from the new coronavirus by almost 90 percent if taken within five days of the onset of symptoms.
Entering the fifth day of her symptoms on Sunday, Peters worried she was running out of time to begin treatment.
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Sunday
UK’s Johnson breaks ministerial code with blocking violations, says constitutional expert
PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson watching immigration speech at Leeds Airport, UK, April 14, 2022. Photo by Matt Dunham / Pool via REUTERS
LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson has plunged Britain into a constitutional crisis by violating a law he called pandemic restrictions, effectively “breaking the ministerial code”, the country’s leading constitutional expert said on Sunday.
Peter Hennessy, a historian and member of the upper house of parliament, said Johnson had become “a great disgrace in modern times of decency in public and political life” after being fined by police for attending a social gathering on Downing Street. at the time the blocking restrictions were in place.
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The ministerial code sets out the standards of conduct expected of ministers and how they perform their duties, according to the government’s website.
Johnson has been accused of misleading opposition lawmakers after telling parliament last year that all rules had been followed on Downing Street during the pandemic. He will appear at the House of Commons on Tuesday to explain why he was fined by police.
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Saturday
A Calgary woman stranded in Shanghai worried about the city’s poorest residents
Daniel Leclerc and her husband Tom Shishko pose for a photo taken in Shanghai before the blockade. Photo: Submitted by Danielle LeClerc
When Daniel LeClerc discovered that she and her neighbors at a Shanghai complex had run out of food earlier this month, she knew it was time to take action.
The former Calgary resident, who has lived in China’s second-most populous city since 2008, gathered many of the women who also live in her complex.
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“I was like, ‘Listen, you know, none of us get food.’ Let’s all work together.
“So we started pulling out our resources and that brought food to our complex. We are doing well now. In fact, we probably have more food per capita than many people. “
The Chinese government began locking parts of Shanghai on March 27. Leclerc said her part of the city had several days’ notice before they were locked up, but other areas only had hours, which caused panicked shopping.
The blockades are an attempt to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, as China has adopted a COVID-zero policy.
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