On Monday, children across Nova Scotia are set to return to their schools after this week’s March Break. While some restrictions will remain in place for the health care system, students will be re-entering classrooms on the same day that the province enters Phase 3 of its reopening plan. Public health and school public health […]
Exploring the evidence, ethics, and pitfalls around vaccine certificates
"Everybody who cannot get one of these documents is going to experience a decrease in freedom relative to what others in the population can do," bioethicist says
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. At some point in the not too distant future, vaccine certificates are expected to be a requirement for international travel. But what should they look like and what issues must be taken into consideration? Dalhousie University Research […]
The possible horrible legacy of the “coronavirus convention”
Against suggestions that it be cancelled, 23,000 people from around the world attended a mining convention in Toronto in March. Now, a government mining official from Burkina Faso who attended the convention has tested positive for COVID-19, and the disease threatens to decimate that country.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free When this global health crisis finally ends, as it will one day, there will be much soul-searching about what could have been done better, and how we could have prevented the spread of the virus and the pandemic. In Canada, one of the lessons learned […]