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Queen's Research Team Receives Federal Funding to study COVID transmission and immunity among students and staff Kingston – While many university classes across Canada are being held online, some programs require in-person learning and access to on- and off-campus research and learning facilities. This increases the risk of exposure for students, faculty and staff to SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. To address this, the Government of Canada is investing $223,161 through Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) to support a research study looking at SARS-CoV-2 transmission and...

Two studies to determine the impact of COVID-19 vaccines in residents of long-term care facilities in BC and Alberta February 10, 2021 05:00 ET | Source: COVID-19 Immunity Task Force COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Montréal, Quebec, CANADA French MONTREAL, Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Residents of long-term care facilities are at increased risk for serious outcomes of COVID-19. As vaccines are now being offered to this priority population, the Government of Canada is investing over $2 million through Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF)...

Federal task force studying B.C. paramedics to find out how to better protect them from COVID-19 Paramedics are at high risk of contracting SARS-CoV 2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but details of what puts them most at risk of exposure have not yet been studied. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Feb 02, 2021 3:09 PM PT | Last Updated: February 2 The federal government is recruiting paramedics from B.C. for a study to find out how to better protect them on the job. Researchers are looking for 5,000 paramedics in B.C. and Ontario to participate in the study. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian...

MONTREAL, Jan. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canadian Blood Services and Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) are releasing new results from their…

Research teams in Montreal, Toronto looking at how COVID-19 impacts immunity Last Updated Dec 17, 2020 at 1:23 pm MDT FILE -- Specimens to be tested for COVID-19 are seen at a lab, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck MONTREAL – Research from two university teams is shedding a little bit of light on why COVID-19 patients have more severe side effects than those with the regular seasonal flu. The teams, from the Université de Montréal and the University of Toronto are backed by Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF). The Toronto team recently...