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This one-time grant reimburses main street businesses for up to $1,000 in PPE costs incurred since March 17, 2020. Eligible businesses for the Main Street Relief Grant now include those with 2 to 19 employees in the following sectors: continue reading

In consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Ontario government is transitioning twenty-seven public health regions out of the shutdown and into a revised and strengthened COVID-19 Response Framework: Keeping Ontario Safe and Open (the "Framework"). The four remaining public health regions, Toronto Public Health, Peel Public Health, York Region Public Health and North Bay Parry Sound District, will remain in the shutdown, and the Stay-at-Home order and all existing public health and workplace safety measures will continue to apply to these four public health regions.     continue reading

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now transferred these results to the situation in Germany and calculated: If all Germans over the age of 50 were to take vitamin D supplements, up to 30,000 cancer deaths per year could possibly be avoided and more than 300,000 years of life could be gained - in addition, health care costs could be saved. continue reading

That system has now been modified to allow some degree of in-person shopping at non-essential stores at all levels, including the grey-lockdown level. continue reading

Sunlight Institute Responses to Sun Articles 212   https://medicaldialogues.in/dentistry/news/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-lead-to-delayed-eruption-of-primary-teeth-study-70849?infinitescroll=1 Great information. Remember that Vitamin D levels in the blood are often only surrogate measurements for sun exposure, which produces about 90% of vitamin D in the typical population. Thus, do we know that it is higher vitamin D levels, which are causing the earlier eruption of teeth?… continue reading