Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians from outside his home in Ottawa about the federal government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. https://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/covid-19-canada-responds/episodes/66199321/#?jwsource=cl
In his May 13 briefing, the PM talked about a COVID-19 antibody test, and announced that students and recent grads can apply for the Emergency Student Benefit at the end of this week https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/trudeaus-daily-coronavirus-update-may-13-full-transcript/
The first serological test — or antibody test — for the novel coronavirus will be rolled out as rapidly as possible, Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said on Wednesday. She said the tests will be used to detect antibodies for COVID-19 that can appear days, or even weeks after the infection to determine [...]
McMaster University faculty members are taking leadership roles in Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Charu Kaushic, professor of pathology and molecular medicine, has been asked to serve on the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She is also the scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute [...]
When Catherine Hankins first arrived in Montreal in 1986, she never expected she'd get into a spat with the provincial health minister. But eight months into a job in Montreal's public health department she made headlines for doing just that. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/catherine-hankins-researcher-covid-1.5563785
University of Saskatchewan Indigenous health researcher Carrie Bourassa has been tapped to share her knowledge and expertise as part of a $350-million project to expand testing and modelling for COVID-19 immunity in Canada. The two-year federal COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, announced April 23, will work to understand the scope of SARS-CoV-2 immunity across the [...]
A Saskatoon-based Metis health researcher will be the Indigenous lead for a new federal COVID-19 Immunity Task Force measuring how widely the virus has spread in Canada. Carrie Bourassa, scientific director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, said it is important for Indigenous people to be included in the country-wide blood test surveys. [...]
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University of Saskatchewan (USask) Indigenous health research leader Dr. Carrie Bourassa has been appointed as the Indigenous Engagement Lead on the federal COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. The leadership group will oversee national efforts to measure the scope and scale of SARS-CoV-2 immunity across Canada. https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2020/usask-indigenous-health-leader-appointed-to-national-covid-19-immunity-task-force.php
Experts from the University of Toronto are poised to help lead Canada’s COVID-19 Task Force, which aims to better understand the coronavirus. President Emeritus David Naylor, a professor in the university’s department of medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, is co-chair of the Task Force. Vivek Goel, vice-president of research and innovation, and strategic [...]