A look at research being done in Canada for a coronavirus vaccine
Globalnews.ca
“Researchers hope to develop ways to adapt vaccines effective against one virus to work against a related one. That would allow them to quickly produce …”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health, vaccine development
How science is accelerating to try and catch up with COVID-19
Macleans.ca
“… University, to join other scientists at the University of Saskatchewan’s … What you’re seeing with COVID-19 is only the movie of what happened 14 to …”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health
COVID-19 breakthrough: researchers from U of T and McMaster successfully isolate virus
Varsity
“Scientists at Sunnybrook Hospital, the University of Toronto, and McMaster University successfully isolated and cultured SARS-CoV-2, the virus that …”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health
In a coronavirus crisis, Gairdner Awards honour eight explorers of how cells, genes and viruses work
The Globe and Mail
“Guy Rouleau, shown at middle in 2010, is director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital and one of the recipients of this year’s Gairdner …”
TAGS: Gairdner Awards, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Nobel laureate leads push for simple made-in-Canada ventilator
The Globe and Mail
“Arthur McDonald, a Queen’s University professor who shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, is leading an effort by Canadian scientists at two …”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health
BC companies step up to build medical equipment, ventilators for hospitals
CBC.ca
“Local health authorities like Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care say they’ve received so many offers that they’re now directing …”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health, ventilators
From Netflix Party to Zoom: how to handle COVID-19-related social distancing
Varsity
“… at the University Health Network, explained how weakened emotional stability can be a typical effect of isolation in an email to The Varsity.”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health
Laurier researchers study mental health of workers during pandemic
CBC.ca
“Laurier researchers study mental health of workers during pandemic … Team surveyed about 1,000 workers across Canada to ask how the transition … “If you look at the existing research about how people cope with these kind of …”
TAGS: COVID-19, innovative research, public health