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BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) -- More than 100 days into the tragic war in Ukraine, keeping children healthy and safe is a priority for humanitarian organizations and international agencies involved in the response. As the relentless attacks continue to destroy essential services, including hundreds of health resources and facilities, providing support to parents who are breastfeeding and using breastmilk substitutes, such as formula, is critical to the survival of babies caught in and affected by the conflict. READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) --  The discovery of hundreds of children’s remains in Kamloops, Brandon and Cowessess have exposed the absolute devastation settlers inflicted upon Indigenous children, families and communities through the Indian Residential School system. READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) --  The political uproar surrounding WE Charity’s $912-million youth volunteer contract with the federal government has obscured a more fundamental question about WE: do its international development efforts help the communities in which it works? READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) --  when COVID-19 first reached Toronto in January 2020, Canada’s infectious disease and public health experts were quick to recount the lessons they had learned from the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) seventeen years earlier. Thanks to modern air travel and the accidental import of cases from Asia, Toronto saw a large outbreak of SARS in 2003, and few places should have been as well equipped to apply those hard lessons as Canada’s largest city, said Vivek Goel a physician and public health specialist who is now a special advisor for the University of Toronto’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) --  Rehabilitation centres have undergone dramatic transformations over the past three months to accommodate patients recovering from COVID-19. An estimated 1 in 20 patients with COVID-19 require critical care during their illness and are likely to need extensive physical and pulmonary rehabilitation after the fact. READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) --  Malawi has a unique claim to COVID-19 fame: it is the only country in the world to announce a lockdown, and then cancel it before the restrictions came into force. President Arthur Peter Mutharika declared a state of emergency on March 20 before health authorities reported any cases in the land-locked southeast African country. Three weeks later, with sixteen confirmed cases and two deaths recorded, Mutharika announced a twenty-one-day lockdown, starting on April 18. The new rules were to include shuttering central food markets and non-essential businesses, restricted hours for farming, and public transit only for hospital staff and emergencies. READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) -- Thousands of patients across Canada are now recovering from COVID-19. But for many, the ordeal is far from over.For survivors who have left hospital, a long road of rehabilitation lies ahead to address problems that linger long after the virus is gone. Rehabilitation takes many forms, such as physical therapy to regain the strength to walk, occupational therapy for daily life at home, and treatment for speech and cognitive impairments. READ MORE. 

BY ALLISON DANIEL (CHI ‘20) -- People living with obesity are emerging as one of the groups most at risk of critical illness if they contract COVID-19. Data collected by researchers at New York University indicate that, apart from seniors over 65 years of age, obesity is the leading risk factor for hospitalization and need for critical care due to COVID-19. READ MORE.