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‘We couldn’t be more disappointed’: SS Keewatin relocating to Kingston?

Jul 16, 2021 , , , , by shlf

It appears as though the SS Keewatin will be leaving Port McNicoll.

Skyline Investments, the company that owns the historic Edwardian steamship, is actively working with representatives from the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes to relocate the ship from Port McNicoll to Kingston.

Multiple media outlets have reported that Skyline will be gifting the ship to the Kingston marine museum, pending approval from Heritage Canada, which caught local volunteers with the Friends of the Keewatin off guard.

“We had been led to believe we were still in the running. We knew the effort to move the ship to Kingston was real and is real. What we didn’t know is Skyline’s statement that the ship has been gifted. That came as a surprise,” said David Blevins, spokesperson for the Friends of the Keewatin.

Local volunteers have spent the better part of the last two years working to try and keep the ship docked in Port McNicoll. They had applied to Heritage Canada and received a list of deficiencies to address.

“Heritage Canada had left our application open. We could re-apply and we were working towards that,” said Blevins.

According to Blevins, the Friends of Keewatin had found a financial backer and was working to strengthen their application, before finding out that Skyline officials recently withdrew their application altogether.

“We couldn’t be more disappointed in the fact that Skyline has decided to turn their back on the community,” said Blevins. “Volunteers have worked tirelessly on this vessel to restore it to the world-class artifact that it is. To have it yanked away… it’s just not fair to the community.”

While the situation looks bleak, local volunteers aren’t ready to wave the white flag just yet. They have reached out to multiple levels of government and are making a list-ditch effort to keep the ship docked in Port McNicoll.

“Our disappointment is huge, but we are not going to give up. We are going to look at every possible option that may or may not be available to us,” said Blevins. “We are not done. It may look like it, but none of us are prepared to say we are finished.”

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Today’s coronavirus news: U.S. new cases hit record; more Europeans hospitalized than ever; Ontario reports highest number of new cases ever

Jul 5, 2021 , , , , by shlf

The latest news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.

6:15 p.m.: British Columbia’s provincial health officer says dangerously high and rapid increases in COVID-19 cases has forced a reversal of the restart plan for two weeks in the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health regions.

Dr. Bonnie Henry says residents in those areas need to significantly reduce their social activities in their homes, for travel, in indoor activities and at workplaces.

Henry says people in the area should be travelling only for essential reasons and there will be no social gatherings of any size with anyone other than those in their immediate household.

She says it’s essential for schools and businesses to remain open, and these new restrictions will allow that to happen.

B.C. recorded 567 cases on Saturday, adding to the 589 on Friday, the highest case counts seen in the province to date.

Henry calls the rising cases worrisome and says residents in those areas need to step back from the restart with urgent and focused actions to avoid serious consequences to the province.

4:03 p.m.: The United States set a record of more than 126,400 confirmed cases in a single day on Friday.

The seven-day rolling average of new daily cases in the U.S. is approaching 100,000 for the first time, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Total U.S. cases since the start of the pandemic are nearing 10 million, and confirmed cases globally are approaching 50 million.

Worldwide infection numbers are also setting records. The world reached 400,000 daily confirmed cases on Oct. 15; 500,000 on Oct. 26, and 600,000 on Friday.

2:53 p.m.: More Europeans are seriously ill with the coronavirus than ever before, new hospital data for 21 countries shows, surpassing the worst days in the spring and threatening to overwhelm stretched hospitals and exhausted medical workers.

New lockdowns have not yet stemmed the current influx of patients, which has only accelerated since it began growing in September, according to official counts of current patients collected by The New York Times. More than twice as many people in Europe are hospitalized with COVID-19 than in the United States, adjusted for population.

In the Czech Republic, the worst-hit nation in recent weeks, one in 1,300 people is currently hospitalized with COVID-19. And in Belgium, France, Italy and other countries in Western Europe, a new swell of patients has packed hospitals to levels last seen in March and April.

“Doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons on Monday. “I am afraid the virus is doubling faster than we could ever conceivably add capacity.”

12:06 p.m.: Quebec reported 1,234 new cases on Saturday. Coupled with 28 new deaths and 875 recoveries, that leaves the active case total at 10,161 — exceeding 10,000 for the first time since May.

Elsewhere, Italy reported nearly 40,000 new cases, a new one-day record, and Poland reported more than 27,000 — likewise a record — and 349 deaths.

10:40 a.m.: Updates to the provincial numbers posted Saturday on Ontario’s COVID-19 page indicate 11 new deaths in the last day from the virus. The number of known active cases in the province is up by 269 to 8,667.

10:29 a.m.: Add one more name to the list of Toronto music venues shuttered for good during the pandemic. The Mod Club, open since 2002 at College and Crawford Sts., announced Friday night on social media that “our goal was always striving to bring big smiles, positive vibrations and memories that will last a lifetime.”

The capacity-620 concert hall had been the site of memorable concerts in the past, including in 2011 the by Abel Tesfaye, alias The Weeknd, after his first mixtape “House of Balloons” caused an international sensation. Leslie Feist, played an pre-stardom show there in 2004.

The Orbit Room, Alleycatz and others have announced their permanent demise, as the pandemic kills touring and indoor live performance. A report last month said that 11 Toronto venues had closed since the initial lockdown in mid-March.

10:20 a.m.: Ontario is reporting 1,132 new cases this morning, according to provincial Health Minister Christine Elliott — and that number is a new single-day high for the province.

Locally, she reported on Twitter, there are 336 new cases in Toronto, 258 in Peel, 114 in York Region, 78 in Ottawa, 64 in Halton and 55 in Hamilton. There are 852 more resolved cases and nearly 39,200 tests completed.

7:38 a.m.: There are 255,809 confirmed cases in Canada.

Quebec: 112,189 confirmed (including 6,403 deaths, 95,956 resolved)

Ontario: 81,693 confirmed (including 3,209 deaths, 70,086 resolved)

Alberta: 31,858 confirmed (including 352 deaths, 24,684 resolved)

British Columbia: 17,149 confirmed (including 275 deaths, 13,035 resolved)

Manitoba: 7,419 confirmed (including 96 deaths, 3,037 resolved)

Saskatchewan: 3,623 confirmed (including 25 deaths, 2,634 resolved)

Nova Scotia: 1,121 confirmed (including 65 deaths, 1,040 resolved)

New Brunswick: 350 confirmed (including 6 deaths, 320 resolved)

Newfoundland and Labrador: 294 confirmed (including 4 deaths, 285 resolved)

Prince Edward Island: 66 confirmed (including 64 resolved)

Yukon: 23 confirmed (including 1 death, 20 resolved)

Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed (including 13 resolved)

Northwest Territories: 10 confirmed (including 10 resolved)

Nunavut: 1 confirmed

Total: 255,809 (0 presumptive, 255,809 confirmed including 10,436 deaths, 211,184 resolved)

7:37 a.m.: British Columbia’s provincial health officer and health minister are holding a rare weekend news conference today amid a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases.

Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix will speak at 1 p.m. although there is no word yet on what will be announced.

In a news conference earlier this week, Henry had said they were talking with health authorities about possibly bringing in region specific restrictions, if necessary.

B.C. reported 589 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up from 425 on Thursday and 334 on Wednesday.

The province also reported two new deaths on Friday, bringing the total to 275.

Less than two weeks ago, Henry brought in new restrictions limiting the number of people in homes to the occupants plus their “safe six” when cases began spiking in the Fraser Health region.

7:36 a.m.: Health measures are loosening in several COVID-19 hot spots today as Ontario’s new tiered system takes effect.

The colour-coded system — which classifies each public health unit as a red, orange, yellow or green zone based on caseload and transmission levels — came into force at midnight, as previous measures imposed on a handful of hot spots were set to expire.

Only Peel Region, which has seen rising cases in recent weeks, was deemed a red zone, while other hot spots such as York Region and Ottawa were labelled as orange.

Regions in the red category have, among other things, indoor restaurant dining limited to 10 people and gyms limited to 10 people indoors.

The orange level limits bars and restaurants to 50 people indoors, with no more than four seated together.

Health officials in Peel had asked that the region remain under a modified Stage 2 — the restriction classification system previously used by the government — which involves more stringent rules such as a ban on indoor dining in restaurants and bars.

Toronto will stay in modified Stage 2 for another week.

7:35 a.m.: Malaysia’s government said Saturday that it will expand movement restrictions to most parts of the country, with coronavirus cases nearly tripling over the past month.

Another 1,168 new cases were reported Saturday, bringing Malaysia’s total tally to 39,357 — compared to just 13,993 a month ago.

Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said all of peninsula Malaysia except for three states will be placed under a conditional movement control order from Monday until Dec. 6. He said the move will help curb the virus spread and allow targeted screening to be done.

7:34 a.m.: Germany’s disease control centre is reporting a new daily record in new coronavirus infections as the pandemic continues to spread through the country.

The Robert Koch Institute said Saturday that Germany’s states reported 23,300 new cases overnight, surpassing the record of 21,506 set the day before, which was the first time the country had registered more than 20,000 daily cases.

It said another 130 people died from the virus, a number that has also been trending upward but remains far lower than the high of 315 deaths reported one day in April.

Alarmed by the rapid rise in numbers, Germany has imposed significant new restrictions to prevent the health system from being overwhelmed. A four-week partial shutdown took effect on Monday, with bars, restaurants, leisure and sports facilities being closed and new contact restrictions imposed. Shops and schools remain open.

Germany has overall recorded 642,488 coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic with 11,226 deaths.

7:33 a.m.: The Australian state of Victoria had its eighth day in a row of no new virus cases or deaths, ahead of another move back to normal living including no limits on travel outside of Melbourne and the resumption of flights to New Zealand.

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews is expected to announce another relaxation of rules on Sunday, including the removal of Melbourne’s so-called “ring of steel.” No longer confined within a 25-kilometre (15-mile) radius, the city’s residents will be allowed to travel throughout the state.

Travel freedom is expected to expand again when the border with New South Wales state reopens to Victorians on Nov. 23.

“They will be big steps, they’ll get us much closer to normal than we’ve been for six or seven months, which is very significant,” Andrews said.

On Monday, the state will see the resumption of direct flights from New Zealand, the first international flights into Melbourne since June 30.

7:31 a.m.: President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic.

Two senior administration officials confirmed Friday that Meadows had tested positive for the virus, which has killed more than 236,000 Americans so far this year. They offered no details on when the chief of staff came down with the virus or his current condition. His diagnosis was first reported by Bloomberg.

Meadows travelled with Trump in the run-up to Election Day and last appeared in public early Wednesday morning without a mask as Trump falsely declared victory in the vote count. He had been one of the close aides around Trump when the president came down with the virus more than a month ago, but was tested daily and maintained his regular work schedule.

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Canada has been reluctant to embrace rapid tests. This Harvard epidemiologist says we can’t afford to wait

Jun 28, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Canada is poised to be the next country to deploy mass rapid testing for COVID-19 in a gambit that Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina says could immediately stem the spread of the virus.

As an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mina has been leading research around COVID-19 testing throughout the pandemic.

Rapid at-home testing could be a COVID-19 game changer, he said.

Mina argues that government regulations should be changed to encourage manufacturers to develop the tests and public funding rolled out to assist companies with building them.

Other countries have had success with or are moving to use rapid testing to control the spread of COVID-19. In Canada, some rapid-testing systems, which provide results in minutes, are approved and being widely used. But the tests aren’t approved for household use and top public health officials remain skeptical since, generally speaking, a faster test yields less accurate results. However, when it comes to an effective testing strategy, Mina says accuracy isn’t everything.

Even as the world is preparing for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, with Canada expecting to begin inoculating people come January, Mina is warning that a rapid-test plan is urgently needed since the spread of the virus will continue to spread for months into 2021 and the dangers will remain real.

Rapid testing is a misunderstood strategy and one that other countries have used effectively in slowing the pandemic, he said. As Canada’s case numbers soar, Mina said this country should do it too.

“For Canada, if you could build 1 to 2 million tests per day, you could actually accomplish this, and one start-up company could produce that,” he said.

The pandemic calls for complete mobilization and a paradigm shift, argued Mina. “We’re literally in a war with a virus.”

At the start of the pandemic, Mina set out to study one question: how accurate does a test need to be to curb the spread of a virus at the community level?

Over months of research, Mina has found that developing a testing program which can identify infectious people and pull them out of the community is what’s crucial. The best way to do that? It’s not about using the most accurate tests, argues Mina. It’s using tests that deliver results quickly across the broadest possible population and using those tests often.

“In every single scenario, the test that can be scaled more widely, can be used with frequency… is incredibly more powerful than a good (gold standard, lab-based) PCR test that is not able to be scaled,” he said.

However, provincial health authorities about using rapid tests at all, noting that many of the rapid antigen tests aren’t as accurate as lab-based tests, and experts have levelled criticism about this kind of mass “at-home” plan saying it could limit data collection and create a false sense of security.

Mina contends that they’re thinking about it all wrong.

His plan calls for millions of people to test themselves at home multiple times a week using rapid antigen tests.

Mina said PCR tests, while good at diagnosing someone, are actually less effective than rapid antigen tests when looking at the pandemic through a public health lens. That means testing as many people as possible as fast as possible.

And that in turn is useful because quickly understanding who is infectious and urging them to self-isolate helps control the spread, Mina said.

If 50 per cent of people tested themselves twice a week, and those who tested positive self-isolated, the spread of the coronavirus would slow significantly, said Mina. “You don’t need to get perfect; you just need to stop most spread.”

Mina pointed to countries in Europe for examples of successful mass rapid testing programs and said Canada should follow their lead.

In October, when Slovakia was seeing exponential growth in infections, it acquired 13 million rapid antigen tests and went on to test two thirds of its population over one weekend. Mina said it’s a “shining example” of how a rapid testing plan could work since “they’ve seen incidents go from exponentially increasing to seeing the epidemic and the outbreak come crashing down.”

“Within a week and a half, they saw 50 per cent reduction in cases,” he said.

In November, Liverpool, England, was announced as the site of that country’s first mass rapid testing program. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has indicated he’d expand rapid testing across the country and for those who tested every day with negative results, life could go on as normal, according to the BBC.

Mina has also been working with the Austrian government which recently announced a mass rapid testing plan and was also in talks with a team from the Ontario government in late November. A spokesperson for the province said the government was interested in Mina’s research findings around rapid testing but didn’t go into detail about any plans it was considering for rapid tests.

While Ontario Premier Doug Ford dubbed rapid tests “a game changer” last month, the Star that Public Health Ontario’s head of microbiology outlined how they don’t perform as well as lab-based tests. Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia’s provincial health officer, said in November that rapid testing was “not a panacea,” especially for long-term-care homes.

Katherine Fierlbeck, a health policy expert and political science professor at Dalhousie University, said there are several issues that arise with rapid at-home testing on a widespread scale.

First, the tests must be designed so people can use them correctly to get a reliable result, she said. Secondly, people may have a false sense of security when they test negative raising the odds they will infect others if the test result is wrong. Finally, Fierlbeck said that with mass at-home testing, there’s no requirement to record a positive test result and so governments lose the ability to track data.

“This whole thing about rapid screening, I see the logic, but the lower the threshold, the more complications arise on a number of different angles,” she said.

Mina said he hears those critiques often and disagrees they would pose a problem. The tests can be designed to be very simple to use: a person would swab their nose, drop it into a tube, and add a piece of paper, he said. A nation-wide education strategy combined with a simple-to-use test “can do wonders,” he added.

The false sense of security argument, meanwhile, is one Mina says is “an age-old concern” that is often overblown. Critics said putting seatbelts in a car would mean people would drive more recklessly or that having an HIV test would mean people would have sex more often, said Mina. “Of course, we know that that’s false now — it’s much better to know your status.”

“This argument always comes up the moment you try to take a public health tool and give it directly to the individual,” he said.

Data collection would be voluntary if the country were under a mass rapid test program, he added, because the goal of rapid test screening isn’t surveillance. Additionally, Mina said he believes that by getting people to voluntarily input their status using their smart phone after the country provided access to millions of at-home tests, “you’ll have more data, not less, flowing to the public health agencies.”

While Canada has shipped more than 5.5 million rapid tests to all the provinces and territories, with millions more expected in the months to come, they’ve received a frosty reception with some jurisdictions saying they wouldn’t use them at all and others planning to only use them on a limited basis.

These tests, which deliver results in minutes rather than days and have to be administered by health-care professionals (they aren’t for at-home use and no at-home tests have received Health Canada approval), are widely considered to be less effective at accurately identifying the virus. Provinces are also reconfirming the results of the rapid antigen tests by submitting them for additional testing using the gold standard PCR system in a lab.

But Mina said the situation across the globe calls for mass mobilization efforts. He worries that promising news of vaccine developments might move the need to fund a massive rapid-testing program off a government’s radar.

“I think that has really blinded everyone’s ability or willingness to really take bold initiative, to tackle the virus now with the tools we have today,” he said. “In World War Two we built B-24 bombers — every 63 minutes they rolled off the Ford assembly line. That’s how we should be thinking about this.

“This is a virus that’s crippling our economies, it’s crippling our social structure, and it’s killing hundreds of thousands of people on our soils, as bad as any war that we’ve fought in decades and decades.”

With files from The Canadian Press and the Associated Press

Kieran Leavitt is an Edmonton-based reporter covering provincial affairs for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: