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COVID update: the 7th wave

 

Ontario and Quebec have announced that they are now seeing a seventh wave of COVID-19 infections, although case numbers are uncertain due to a lack of reporting. Health Canada reports 21,317 new cases for the week ending July 8, but acknowledges that this is an underestimate (https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/Epidemiological-summary-of-COVID-19-cases-in-Canada-Canada.ca.pdf). The Northwest Territories and Nunavut no longer publish COVID case numbers while Saskatchewan posts case numbers only once a month. Read More

Pandemic prescribing – what changed?

 

Use of disease-modifying therapies for MS changed substantially during the pandemic among clinicians and patients, according to two studies presented at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) 2022 annual meeting. Read More