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Ontario is poised to proceed with second doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the use of which was put on hold last week over concerns about an increase in rare blood clots after first shots, the Star has learned.An announcement is coming within days, a senior government sou
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stanley thermobecher alled Wednesday that 45,000 remaining doses of the AstraZeneca and related Covishield vaccines that are on hand in pharmacies and central storage are ready to go. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Nothing will be wasted, she said in the legislature as questions swirled about how doses will get into arms before the vaccines become stale-dated 鈥?raising the prospect that some people could get second AstraZeneca shots before the end of the 16-week interval imposed earlier this year.Details are coming well in advance, Elliott added, noting statistics from the United Kingdom, where t
stanley cup he AstraZeneca vaccine has been used widely, show much less risk of blood clots after a second shot. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Ontarios chief medical officer, Dr. David Williams, has estimated that risk at one in a million, and stressed that recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine will likely have the option of getting vaccines made by Pfizer or Moderna 鈥?which are made using a different technology鈥攆or their booster shots. The prov Lydc New MAID law could mean 1,200 more assisted deaths
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stanley bottles or manslaughter in the 2018 death of Amanda McClaskin.Manslaughter, said Justice Gregory Ellies during the sentencing at the Parry Sound Courthouse on Dec. 14, can run the gamut from an accident to something very near murder.In this case, Ellies said, St. Amants actions were closer to murder. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW McClaskin was 36 when she was killed on the evening of Aug. 3, 2018, in St. Amants Byng Inlet home.She was reported missing to West Parry Sound OPP by her workplace supervisor the afternoon of Aug. 7, 2018, and St. Amant was arrested on Aug. 10, a day before her body was found on Aug. 11 off Lake Joseph Road, in Muskoka Lakes Township. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW St. Amant, 41, was originally charged with indignity to a human body and second-degre
stanley botella e murder.He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and indignity to a human body Oct. 7. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW On Nov. 19 the Crown and defence proposed to Ellies an overall sentence of 15 years in jail. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW St. Amant has spent 849 days in jail and was given credit for four years custody, slightly more than would have been granted if not for hardships imposed by the pandemic, Ellies said.The 15-year sentence is longer than the range proposed in ca