Anthony Furey

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Hospital staff speak out over vaccine mandate firings

A Toronto hospital lab technician who has had COVID-19 twice is speaking out over her frustrations with her employer’s plans to terminate her in early February for not receiving two doses of vaccine.

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January 26, 2022 Ontario

Denise Grant-Balcharan, a registered lab technologist at Humber River hospital for the past 15 years, faces termination because she refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

FUREY: The U.K. acknowledges they have a COVID anxiety problem -- why can't we?

It’s hard to imagine any government in Canada — the feds or any of the provinces — putting out a series of tips to help people get over their COVID-19 fears. After all, most of them seem to want to keep ramping up the fears.

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January 24, 2022 Columnists

FUREY: Public health faces an uphill battle deradicalizing the COVID obsessed

On Friday, British Columbia’s chief medical officer Dr. Bonnie Henry gave a detailed press conference where she laid out how the province’s response to COVID-19 was transitioning to become “much more like how we manage influenza” and other seasonal viruses.

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January 22, 2022 Columnists

B.C. provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry talks about B.C.'s plan to restart the province during a press conference at Legislature in Victoria, Tuesday, May 25, 2021.

FUREY: Ontario kids subject to stricter rules than ever before

Teachers are boostered. Lots of kids have received a first vaccine dose. The Omicron variant, according to Public Health Ontario, is significantly milder. And yet the COVID rules kids in Ontario face are worse than they’ve ever been before.

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January 21, 2022 Columnists

Students arrive for the first time since the start of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School, part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada September 15, 2020.

FUREY: Ontario on cusp of a COVID transition — let's welcome it

On Wednesday, the United Kingdom announced it will lift all COVID restrictions on Jan. 26, based on the mildness of Omicron and how it’s receding.

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January 19, 2022 Columnists

A booster shot of Pfizer at a Shoppers Drug Mart location at The Kingsway and Royal York in Toronto on December 22, 2021.

FUREY: School board nixes attempts to make kids eat lunch outdoors in winter

The Toronto District School Board is clarifying that kids will not be eating lunch outdoors in the freezing cold as a COVID-19 measure after some teachers initially told parents it would happen.

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January 19, 2022 Toronto & GTA

The Toronto District School Board head office located at 5050 Yonge St. in North York.

FUREY: Half of COVID hospital numbers admitted for other reasons

The Ontario government quietly dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, producing a new data set that reveals how many people were actually admitted to hospital in the province because they were suffering from COVID-19. The number is half of what previous reporting led the public to believe.

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January 12, 2022 Columnists

Paramedics unload a patient at Mount Sinai Hospital on Jan. 3, 2022.

FUREY: Here's what's really going on in Ontario hospitals

The following is based on interviews with more than half a dozen hospital physicians, ICU staff and senior health-care figures from different hospitals throughout Ontario. No one was authorized to reveal this information on the record and so they have been granted anonymity.

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January 10, 2022 Columnists

FUREY: As more people get mild Omicron, they're questioning the need for restrictions

“If we hadn’t been tested and knew it was Omicron, we would have thought it was just a cold.”

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January 8, 2022 Columnists

A delivery arrives at a closed Cineplex cinema after the company announced it is temporarily laying off 6,000 part-time employees due to mandated closures of its venues amid surging the coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant, in Etobicoke January 6, 2022.

FUREY: A former military leader breaks down what Ontario must do now

When retired Lt.-Col. David Redman wrote Alberta’s 2005 Alberta pandemic influenza response plan, he received input from 10 deputy ministers. Only one of them was the deputy minister of health. The rest represented other ministries, other sectors.

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January 6, 2022 Columnists

When retired lieutenant-colonel David Redman wrote Alberta’s 2005 Alberta pandemic influenza response plan, he received input from 10 deputy ministers. Only one of them was the deputy minister of health. The rest represented other ministries, other sectors.

Anthony Furey

LATEST STORIES BY ANTHONY FUREY

Hospital staff speak out over vaccine mandate firings

FUREY: The U.K. acknowledges they have a COVID anxiety problem -- why can't we?

FUREY: Public health faces an uphill battle deradicalizing the COVID obsessed

FUREY: Ontario kids subject to stricter rules than ever before

FUREY: Ontario on cusp of a COVID transition — let's welcome it

FUREY: School board nixes attempts to make kids eat lunch outdoors in winter

FUREY: Half of COVID hospital numbers admitted for other reasons

FUREY: Here's what's really going on in Ontario hospitals

FUREY: As more people get mild Omicron, they're questioning the need for restrictions

FUREY: A former military leader breaks down what Ontario must do now

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