CBC News published this video item, entitled “New Brunswick issues call for volunteers to help with COVID-19 response” – below is their description.
New Brunswick Health Minister Dorothy Shephard joins Power & Politics to discuss the province’s call for paid and unpaid volunteers, as well as how it plans to use Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid, which received approval from Health Canada Monday.
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Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
Symptoms of coronavirus
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
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Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City. In 2012, it was one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and ranked 57 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.