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  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 Canada's identification and response to adverse events people may experience following COVID-19 vaccination across 10 provinces. This study is an extension of an existi...

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 extent of transmission in the neighbourhood and dig into what caused such a severe spread in the communit...

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 had been infected. But, while children have represented a very small proportion of serious COVID-19 il...

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…