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With the COVID-19 death toll in the United States having surpassed 730,000, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed that he finds it "mind-boggling" that partisanship and skepticism of science continue to fuel the pandemic.

Alberta is getting ready to roll out vaccines for kids between the ages of 5 and 11 if they are approved by Health Canada.

MONTREAL, Oct. 05, 2021 -- The Government of Canada, through the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force , is supporting a study that will investigate COVID-19 among the Orthodox Jewish community in...

MONTREAL, Oct. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Government of Canada, through the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF), is supporting a study that will...

Article content As part of the study, researchers will seek to recruit 460 patients at 12 sites, including Ottawa, with conditions such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis. Cowan, an assistant professor at uOttawa, said she hopes the study will allow researchers to better understand which parts of the immune system are essential in generating an immune response to COVID-19 vaccines. Such information, she said, could help in the design of future vaccines. • Dr. Angela Crawley, a scientist at T...

  HALIFAX -- Some Maritime researchers are helping to identify and deal with rare, but serious, side-effects that some people have after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, and say their work should be reassuring, not unsettling to Canadians. In an early morning news release Tuesday, the federal COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group announced an investment of $800,000 for a study to further improve Canadas identification and response to adverse events people may expe...

Article content Launching this week, the year-long study will be led by researchers from the Université de Montréal and the Association for Canadian Studies, and will involve several local community groups. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or What made Montreal North a COVID hot spot? A new study looks for answers Back to video For Simona Bignami, a demographer and associate professor at the university, it will be a chance to grasp the full exten...

Article content The Statistics Canada research, which was completed before the third wave of the pandemic began in the spring, is the most representative study to date of the number of Canadians who had developed antibodies from past infections. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Children and youth had highest rates of COVID before third wave Back to video The numbers were small. Just 2.6 per cent of people studied had antibodies showing that they ha...

COVID-19 deaths led to a five-month decrease in life expectancy at birth last year, recent data released by Statistics Canada suggest, potentially putting the country at a level not seen in seven years.

MONTREAL, June 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Government of Canada, through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) and Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group…