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Foods lifestyle and supplements to help build up your resistance

Around the globe, people are dealing as best they can with the novel coronavirus outbreak, SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID 19. 

After we wash our hands, don a facemask and avoid non-essential travel and socialization – many of us are looking for ways to maximize our immune function.  

A quick internet search will reveal an assortment of advice on what foods, lifestyle and supplements may increase your resistance to contracting the virus, and your resilience to illness if you do. 

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A fortress breached: COVID-19 cases increasing on Vancouver Island

Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The fortress that was Vancouver Island has been breached when it comes to the low COVID-19 case numbers it enjoyed compared to B.C.’s Lower Mainland during earlier stages of the pandemic.

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Cannabis may help address Canada’s overdose crisis

Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Canada’s overdose crisis — fuelled by increasingly toxic street drugs and compounded by COVID-19 — is going into overdrive, and youth are particularly vulnerable, researchers say.

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