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Vaxx Populi: NACI described mRNA vaccines as "preferred," but the protection all vaccines—including AstraZeneca—offer from COVID is 'immensely higher' than the risk of blood clots

Confused By NACIs AstraZeneca Recommendation? Why The First Shot Offered Is Still The Best Shot NACI described mRNA vaccines as preferred, but the protection all vaccines—including AstraZeneca—offer from COVID is immensely higher than the risk of blood clots. Patricia Treble, Macleans Updated May 5, 2021 Visitors arrive at a pop up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at David and Mary Thomson high school in Toronto on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Hundreds of people lined up through the n...

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 E-Mail IMAGE: Alán Aspuru-Guzik, director of the Acceleration Consortium, Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry in the Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science at U of T, and Canada CIFAR AI... view more  Credit: Johnny Guatto/University of Toronto TORONTO, ON - The Acceleration Consortium, a new global collaboration between academia, industry and government, based at the University of Toronto (U of T), will use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to accelera...

Lack of vaccine capacity propels Canada into global race to attract drug companies POLITICO 5 hrs ago By Andy Blatchford © Jacob King/Getty Images The biomanufacturing scarcity in Canada has highlighted the health risks of foreign dependence as well as the political ones. OTTAWA — Canadas race for Covid vaccines quickly exposed a flaw: It lacked the capacity to produce any. The absence of domestic manufacturing forced the Trudeau government from the get-go into a global c...

Article content Canada has an unprecedented opportunity to mix-and-match its choice of vaccines, experts say, in a move that could boost Canadian’s immunity to the COVID-19 virus and its variants and help health-care workers circumvent vaccine shortages. On Friday, Health Canada gave the green light for the national use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, making it the third vaccine approved for distribution in Canada, along with those manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna. We apologize, but this...

Can You Mix And Match COVID Vaccines? Some scientists think using different types of vaccines might confer more protection against variants of concern. A study could provide the evidence. Patricia Treble, Macleans Updated February 24, 2021 COVID-19 vaccine shots are prepared by Allison Miley, RN, at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax on Feb. 22, 2021. (Andrew Vaughan/CP) “I think we’re having a global science lesson,” says Dr. Alan Bernstein, CEO of CIFAR, a Toronto-based ...

Vaxx Populi: Some scientists think using different types of vaccines might confer more protection against variants of concern. A study could provide the evidence.

Article content OTTAWA — Canada could have done more to boost homegrown COVID-19 vaccines last spring but the federal government and its agencies were too slow and risk-averse when it came to funding, a parliamentary committee heard Monday. John Lewis, CEO of Entos Pharmaceuticals, said his Alberta company has a vaccine candidate in development but never received the kind of early, up-front funding that the U.S. and U.K. governments put into their own vaccine production. We apologize, but thi...

iPolitics By Kady OMalley. Published on Feb 21, 2021 4:00pm Then-U.S. vice president Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a meeting of first ministers in Ottawa in December 2016. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) U.S. President Joe Biden in December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has secured his first face-to-face meeting with the new resident of the White House. But, unlike his instantly historic state visit to Washington at the invitation of then-president Barack Obama, he...