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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 video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Should we mix-and-match doses from diffe...

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, Maclean's 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 global research organization. The pandemic has “made science all of a sudden not some esoteric, a...

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 this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Canada was too slow and risk-averse in ...

iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. 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’ll be firing up his webcam this time, instead of the prime ministerial jet. “Both Trudeau’s ...