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As Saskatchewan residents are praised for their success in flattening the curve of COVID-19, doctors and public health experts are reminding the public there is a new next task at hand: avoiding a second wave that could be worse than the first.  "If the public behaviour changes so much back to what it was pre-virus then all we've done is delayed a massive second wave by a few…

Andrew Elchuk was spring cleaning at his Saskatoon home after returning from a family trip to Europe when he got the news that he had tested positive for COVID-19. He had been feeling tired and short of breath. The notification from e-health confirmed his suspicions as to why.  "It just felt really surreal," said Elchuk, who explained that climbing the stairs in his bi-level…

REGINA -- A Milestone-area woman and her three kids have not seen their husband and father in weeks after he was severely injured in a crash earlier this month. Brian Mandel was airlifted by STARS Air Ambulance to the Regina General Hospital on May 14. Since then his wife, Chelsey, has only been able to see him via video due to COVID-19 restrictions in place on hospital visits. “Your…

A potential COVID-19 vaccine has achieved a "major milestone" in moving toward human clinical trials, according to researchers in Saskatchewan. The University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) said Monday that a vaccine candidate it has developed has proven to be "highly effective" in pre-clinical…

A Saskatoon mother is concerned the Saskatchewan Health Authority is using a hand sanitizing gel that may be harmful to individuals who are nursing or breastfeeding.  A May 21 memo obtained by CBC sent to staff across the authority indicated a type of Health Care Plus Sanitizing Hand Gel "is unsafe for pregnant and nursing women" as it uses "technical grade ethanol…