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THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Canada’s immunity task force takes aim at pressing COVID-19 questions

Published: 4 May 2020

After one week on the job, members of the federal government’s new immunity task force say they are coming to grips with a towering wall of uncertainty that obscures the true extent of COVID-19 in...

CBC | Health expert warns reopening provincial economies will be 'tricky'

Published: 4 May 2020

Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment — because so little is known about how many people are immune to...

THE GLOBE AND MAIL | All eyes are on Quebec’s move to reopen schools as COVID-19 worries persist

Published: 4 May 2020

The province may push back the dates of schools reopening, especially in Montreal, if the spread of the virus does not slow down, said Ciriaco Piccirillo, a professor in the department of...

FORTUNE | Coronavirus is making clear there is no solidarity in the EU

Published: 4 May 2020

« The European Union is in trouble. From the start, its countries haven’t been on equal footing. But COVID-19 has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between its national economies. The...

New partnership to unravel genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Quebec

Published: 28 April 2020

The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) and the Â鶹AV Genome Centre today announced they will partner to sequence the viral genomes of Quebec patients with COVID-19 disease. The...

COVID 19 treatments and vaccines: the importance of rigorous science

Published: 23 April 2020

Ethicists from Carnegie Mellon and Â鶹AV universities are calling on the global research community to resist treating the urgency of the current COVID-19 outbreak as grounds for making exceptions...

Canada launches serological testing initiative to help manage COVID-19

Published: 23 April 2020

The Government of Canada is launching a task force to measure the scope of coronavirus infection in Canada and rapidly provide information needed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and safely get...

Â鶹AV Genome Centre to share in $20M funding for COVID-related DNA research

Published: 23 April 2020

The Â鶹AV Genome Centre today announced it has received funding from the Canadian government to sequence the genomes of people affected by COVID-19. The Federal Government is committing $40...

Canada launches serological testing initiative to help manage COVID-19

23 Apr 2020

The Government of Canada is launching a task force to measure the scope of coronavirus infection in Canada and rapidly provide information needed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and safely get...

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