The New Reality: March 13

The New Reality meets with scientists in England who studied a patient who was sick with COVID-19 for more than 100 days and discovered that the virus was mutating over and over again. It’s sparked the belief that the new B.1.1.7 variant first found in the U.K. could have been created in a single immunocompromised patient.
The pandemic was only just taking hold when two chefs noticed the need for meals and food was increasingly – quickly. So they did what any chef would do – they started cooking. As Mike Drolet reports on The New Reality, they used their contacts with food suppliers, colleges and hotels to divert over a million dollars’ worth of food away from landfill and to shelters and food banks instead.

• Canada reports 30 new COVID-19 deaths, 2,968 more infections