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Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in “a very delicate period” as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward across the country, even while overall numbers of new coronavirus cases fall.
#1172 of 1300 articles from the Special Report: Coronavirus in Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021., to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in "a very delicate period" as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward across the country, even while overall numbers of new coronavirus cases fall. At least 148 cases of the variants that first emerged in the United Kingdom (known scientifically ...
Colijn's lab released modelling data this week showing public health rules in several provinces, including B.C., would not be sufficient to prevent exponential growth in cases starting around March if a COVID-19 variant with a 40 per cent higher transmission rate became established. "By established I mean some cluster doesn't get stopped and takes off and we don't notice or we don't act and we are unable to stop those chains of transmission and so they take off the way the current COVID has," she said. Colijn added she would expect public health officials to enact further restrictions before ...
VANCOUVER -- There's a race between COVID-19 and the rollout of vaccine as researchers and health officials in B.C. warn of two faster-spreading variants. The number of variant cases may start low, but increased transmission could only be a few weeks away, just as delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is delayed, said Caroline Colijn, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Infection, Evolution and Public Health at Simon Fraser University. Colijn's lab released modelling data this week showing public health rules in several provinces, including B.C., would not be sufficient ...
B.C. ramps up screening for faster-spreading coronavirus 'variants of concern' There's a race between COVID-19 and the rollout of vaccine as researchers and health officials in B.C. warn of two faster spreading variants. Social Sharing Stalled immunization rollout means we're in a 'race between the vaccine and the virus,' SFU professor says Posted: Jan 27, 2021 7:20 AM PT | Last Updated: January 27 A poster of Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, is pictured at a COVID-19 testing centre in Burnaby. The province is sequencing about 15 per cent of samples that test positive for C...