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Rapid antigen test kits will be available atThe expansion into the age group comes as the government has scaled back its PCR testing to less than 10,000 a day.
People 70 and older were the first group allowed to pick up a five-pack test kit. Eventually, all British Columbians will be able to pick up one free kit every 28 days atThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.As of Thursday, 3.9 million tests have been sent to pharmacy distributors. Of these, 1.8 million have been delivered to pharmacies across B.C. More than 583,000 tests have been given out by more than 1,000 pharmacies.
Approximately 600 million people worldwide experience cognitive impairment in the form of “brain fog”. This “fog” is a common symptom of what is dubbed “long COVID,” the long-term effects of having contracted the COVID-19 virus.Article content“I don’t think we exactly know the answer…these are all, neuroscientifically, not very well-defined things,” said Dr. Adrian Owen, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Western University in London, Ontario.
Even though “brain fog” lacks a specific scientific definition, he said they are starting to understand how it impacts the brains of people who have had COVID. Owen is a part of a team of researchers looking at how a group of 485 patients who had self-reported a positive-COVID test in an online survey, have had their cognitive function and mental health impacted by the virus.
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