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Evening Update: National Capital Commission closes Mud Lake paths due to aggressive turkeys

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A tick bite, the Powassan virus, and MaryAnn's struggle View this email in your browser OTTAWA CITIZEN PHOTO: WIRE PHOTOS If age is just a number, can you change it? How biological age tests aim to make you younger A little greying around the hairline. The furrowed frown lines, those dreaded 11s between the eyebrows. Not as much firmness to the skin. There can be obvious giveaways time is passing, the clock is ticking. But are those visible signs of aging a true reflection of how the internal body is aging? What if people who seem a fountain of youth – thick, radiant hair, muscles around the mid-section instead of a middle-age paunch — would test biologically older than what their birth certificate says? What if more shambolic bodies are actually cellularly younger? A growing crop of start-ups are offering direct-to-consumer tests that claim to reveal a person’s “true” biological age, based on a small sample of cells swabbed from a cheek, or a few drops of blood. READ MORE  THE LUCK OF THE IRISH  Top 50 Irish proverbs and sayings you should know for St. Patrick’s Day LATEST OTTAWA COVID STATS Newly Reported Cases, Deaths, and Outbreaks Change from Previous Refresh: 111 Cases 1 Deaths 10 Outbreaks 3 Days 34.9 244 23.4 7 Day Average of New Cases Reported Rate per 100,000 of COVID-19 Newly Reported Cases in Previous 7 Days Reported in Previous 7 Days 093 - 153 093 - 153 093 - 153 Active Cases and Ongoing Outbreaks 344 26 3 22 Active Cases Currently in Hospital Currently in ICU Ongoing Outbreaks Because of an Because of an in Instltutlonal Active Infection Active Infection Settings Cumulative Cases Deaths 90,576 39 0.0 - 109 Years 1,028 Total Cases Median Age of Cases Age Range of Cases Total Deaths Reported Mar. 16, 2023 Source: Ottawa Public Health How to get tested and treated for COVID-19 in Ottawa Pharmacists can dispense Paxlovid, an antiviral drug used to reduce severe outcomes from COVID-19 to eligible people at no cost, both in person and virtually. People can use Ontario’s COVID-19 online antiviral treatment screener to see if they’re at higher risk of severe illness and might benefit from the medication. Ottawa residents can find out who’s currently eligible for testing and how to book tests and seek treatment at local care clinics or assessment centres on Ottawa Public Health website. Families can also check out CHEO’s page on when to go to the emergency department and alternatives to the ED. Editor's Note: It is now three years since the coronavirus pandemic was declared and while the pandemic is not over, it has become a routine part of life. Daily reporting of COVID numbers is being phased out here in Ottawa and around the world. For example; the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, which collected and reported data on COVID numbers world-wide stopped the practice March 10, 2023.  OPH has reduced the frequency of reports to twice weekly.  In response, we are cutting back our What you Need to Know about COVID section.  Starting Monday March 20, you will find an abbreviated COVID section: featuring a graphic sourced directly from OPH updated bi-weekly with COVID numbers in our community, and links to resources on how to find vaccines, treatment and rapid tests.  If you'd like to express your concern with this - please do send me a note. Sincerely,  Nicole Feriancek Editor-in-chief What you need to know about COVID-19 today * Quebec reported the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 was 1,265. Of those patients, 31 were in intensive care. The province also announced that 11 more deaths had been attributed to COVID-19. The death toll since the start of the pandemic now stands at 18,230. The province reported 399 more COVID-19 cases had been confirmed through PCR testing * Most Canadian businesses that answered federal and provincial calls during the pandemic to build up a domestic sector for personal protective equipment have collapsed * New data linking COVID-19 to raccoon dogs in a Wuhan wet market provides “important incremental evidence” supporting the hypothesis that the virus originated in wildlife, according to a scientist who has studied the genesis of the pandemic in China NOTE: The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center stopped collecting data and reporting on March 10, 2023. The CRC’s pandemic data will be archived to ensure it remains accessible to the global research and response community. This newsletter will continue to report on data from Ottawa Public Health Your Evening Update was curated and assembled by Lois Kirkup.  PHOTO: Tony Caldwell / POSTMEDIA Turkey terror: National Capital Commission closes Mud Lake paths due to aggressive gobblers The National Capital Commission temporarily closed walking trails at Mud Lake in the Britannia Conservation Area as it tries to capture and relocate a trio of tempestuous toms. The toms — male wild turkeys that become increasingly aggressive during the spring mating season — have been harassing walkers along the Mud Lake trails for the past several weeks. On Friday, conservation officers took action, closing off access to the trails and starting a turkey hunt. Benoīt Desjardins, a spokesperson for the National Capital Commission (NCC), said in an email that its conservation officers have worked alongside its biologists on a plan to “safely capture and relocate the turkeys with a minimum amount of stress to the birds.” READ MORE  COVID-19  Ottawa's wastewater tracking was vital during the pandemic. Now its funding could go down the toilet PHOTO: COURTESY OF HARRIS FAMILY A tick bite, the Powassan virus, and MaryAnn's struggle It was Labour Day 2021 when MaryAnn Harris told her husband she was feeling tired and needed to go upstairs to lie down. A few hours later she was feeling nauseous. She complained of double vision. Her husband, Charles de Lint, immediately called Telehealth Ontario, when the nurse told them to go straight to the emergency department. Overnight she got encephalitis, a swelling of her brain. By the next morning, MarryAnn was in the ICU on life support, breathing with a ventilator. “They didn’t know what was wrong,” said Charles, a popular author of fantasy novels, a three-time Aurora Award winner, and a member of Canada’s Science Fiction Writers Hall of Fame. “They assumed it was a virus of some sort. It looked like they had 70 little machines feeding her different kinds of antibiotics.” Today, more than a year and a half after falling ill, MaryAnn hasn’t been back home. She still breathes with a ventilator and remains nearly paralyzed. 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