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Canadian study to investigate mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new Canada-wide study will look at the effect of using different COVID-19 vaccine doses in Canadian adults to determine if mix-and-matching vaccines yields a strong immune response and how long the response lasts. The study, announced Thursday, will investigate the use of different vaccines for first and second doses in 1,300 adult participants. The study will be conducted in conjunction with the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group, Canadian Immunization R...

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Louisiana Could Become National Leader in Protecting Citizens From Unreasonable Force Danae Columbus - Contributing Writer May 14th 2021 The police reform movement in Louisiana won a major victory this week when HB 609 by Rep. Edmond Jordan was passed out of the Louisiana House of Representatives with 53 votes, the exact number needed for passage. The bill will next be debated by the Senate Judiciary B committee.  Jordan’s legislation prohibits qualified immunity as a defense for officers who use unreasonable force in the line of duty and cause death or injury. If passed by the Sen...

Posted: May 14, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 14 The two-million-plus Canadians who received the AstraZeneca vaccine made the right choice and should not regret their decision, health experts say.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) The more than two million Canadians who received the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine made the right choice and should not regret their decision, health experts say, despite the fact that some provinces are pausing rollout of the vaccine over concerns about the risk of rare blood clots. In fact, Dr. David Naylor, co-chair of the national COVID-1...

But while herd immunity may be elusive, stopping transmission with vaccines can restore a similar semblance of normalcy, she said.  Catherine Hankins, the co-chair of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, says factors like the coronavirus variants-of-concerns may mean Canada doesn't achieve herd immunity any time soon — or at all. (Submitted by Catherine Hankins ) Herd immunity occurs when enough of a population is immune to a virus — either naturally from infection or through vaccination — so the virus can't find hosts and eventually dies off. The threshold for herd immunity is dif...