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An Ontario man whose father suffered a severe stroke from a rare blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is revealing new details about the condition for the first time in hopes of helping Canadians better understand the risk.
Some COVID-19 patients are now deteriorating so quickly that they die before they can seek medical attention, Ontario’s chief coroner says. He calls it an “unfortunate and sad” phenomenon that shows how serious the virus can be.
The vaccine rollout across the country had many filled with hope for a return to a pre-pandemic summer music festival scene. On Thursday, Montreal’s Osheaga Festival cancelled its line-up for the second year in a row, meaning audiences won’t get to see acts like Post Malone, Cardi B and the Foo Fighters.
Ontario has detected 36 cases of the B1617 COVID-19 variant first identified in India, the province’s public health agency says.
Olympic Gold medalist Alex Kopacz is in a London, Ont. hospital after contracting COVID-19. The bobsleigh champion has fits of uncontrollable coughing and said he was scared before he was hooked up to oxygen. He wants people to know that COVID is no joke.