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What’s Going On With A COVID-19 Vaccine?
On Monday, Moderna announced that early data shows its vaccine appears to be 94.5 percent effective. Claire Gagné Updated
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It’s the good news we all need. Last week, New York-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, who is developing a COVID-19 vaccine with German company BioNTech, announced that, based on preliminary data, its vaccine appears to be more than 90 percent effective.
Then, on Monday morning, the Cambridge, Mass. biotech firm Moderna said its vaccine appears to be 94.5 percent effective, also based on early data.
But don’t book that family reunion for mid-2021 just yet. While it’s certainly news worth celebrating, there are a lot of unknowns about these vaccines and the many others in development including when they will be widely available. “This news, in my opinion, is a little early,” says Horacio Bach, adjunct professor in the University of British Columbia’s division o
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By now, many Canadians likely know that Lucky Aguila was among the first people in this country to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Monday. But the news came as a bit of a surprise to the 27-year-old nurse’s parents. Aguila didn’t tell them he was getting the vaccine; instead, they saw it happen on TV.
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Tamara Dus, director of health services at the University Health Network, injects a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at The Michener Institute in Toronto on Monday.(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Anita Quidangen received a shot of the Pfizer vaccine at the University Health Network.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu calls it really good news for everyone across the country but has a caution.
“We also have to keep protecting each other and one worry I would like to share…Is that Canadians think this is just around the corner that COVID-19 is over…this is going to help,”
The health minister adds we have to protect our family and community as we wait for our turn at getting the vaccine. ); } return false; }); $( #comments .commentlist .comment-content a ).attr( target , blank );
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What you need to know, at a glance
Ontario reported a record 2,275 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, with one-time jump attributed to data extraction process changes.
New case total includes 711 cases in Toronto, 586 in Peel, 185 in Windsor-Essex and 154 York Region.
20 additional COVID-19 deaths were reported provincewide. There are 921 people hospitalized, including 249 in ICU, 156 of them on ventilators.
Ottawa Public Health reported 13 new cases and one new death Tuesday.
There have been 9,118 cases confirmed since the pandemic began, and 387 deaths.
In Ottawa-area health units, Eastern Ontario saw 11 new cases, five in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington, three in Leeds, Grenville & Lanark, and two in Renfrew County.