COVID daily update: Can cannabis help?

📆 2022-08-10 6:36 PM

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A new study finds regular cannabis use might help with COVID outcomes — but there's a catch. — via healthing_ca

“The link between cannabis usage and better COVID outcomes is sensible,” the study’s authors say.

But the study was very small — it used data from 1,831 COVID patients, and only 69 of those people regularly used cannabis. Much larger studies would be needed to prove a definitive link, the authors say.It was an immense relief to many parents when Canada approved a COVID vaccine for children under 12. But what about the kids who are scared of needles?is looking to help. Recruiters are seeking families of children between the ages of four and 11 who haven’t yet had their COVID shot.

COVID-19 vaccines for kids under five,” said Dr. Melanie Noel, a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute,“What we know is that these vaccine injections can be stressful, they can be painful, they can be scary for some families.

. “And then a wave came along where, you know, ICU wasn’t so much the problem, but the medical wards were really filling up with COVID patients. And now in wave seven, we’re seeing not so much that the demand for services is up, but the health-care workforce is depleted.”

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