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On New Year’s Eve, the software company BlueDot pushed out a notification to its customers about a mysterious illness that appeared in…
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The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics should bring the world back together in a reinvigorated spirit of Olympism – the ideal that sport…
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As the COVID-19 outbreak unfolds in Toronto, medical trainees working on the frontlines often need somewhere to stay away from their families to…
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Public meetings are banned. Theatres, schools, colleges and churches are closed. Business hours are restricted across Canada. It sounds like the…
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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Canada, Shrey Jain and his University of Toronto classmates received notice that all their courses were…
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With the world in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Toronto has taken the difficult decision to cancel spring convocation…
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Millions of people around the world are staying home as much as possible to limit the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing has brought large sections…
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How long will the COVID-19 pandemic last and when will measures like physical distancing be lifted? Such questions are top of mind for officials…
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A group of researchers at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health have developed an interactive online tool that helps…
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A University of Toronto alumnus is behind a biotech firm that could soon be bringing portable COVID-19 tests to communities across the country —…
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As the world’s health-care systems bend under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Toronto community – researchers, clinicians,…
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Tossing and turning at night amid the COVID-19 outbreak? You’re not alone. University of Toronto Mississauga anthropologist and sleep…