Coronavirus Resources
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This page will direct you to a number of reputable resources about COVID-19 and will feature information and news about the actions the Government of Canada, our Provincial Governments and the health research and health innovation communities are taking to address this public health crisis. We will be updating this page regularly as new information becomes available, so please use and share these resources with your networks.
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Health Research on the Frontlines: Research Canada’s Members in Action |
Latest Blogs and News Releases
“While we navigate our way through COVID-19, know that Research Canada will honour our commitments to our Members, Supporters and Partners and will continue to be the lighthouse for the health research and innovation sector during these challenging times.”
– Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety, President and CEO of Research Canada
The Government of Canada’s Update on COVID-19 (led by Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada):
- COVID-19 updates: Current cases, risk to Canadians, news and updates
- Prevention and risk: Social distancing, self-isolation, hygiene, how COVID-19 spreads, infection risks, false claims
- Symptoms and treatment: Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, about coronaviruses
- Travel advice: Travel advisories, returning travellers, safety abroad
- Canada’s response: Economic and financial support, Government of Canada’s actions, Canadian collaboration
- Being prepared: Planning, prescriptions, essentials, caring for those who are ill, communication
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- CanCOVID – An expert community of Canadian COVID-19 researchers, clinical collaborators, and healthcare stakeholders from across the country. Canada’s Chief Science Officer mandated the creation of CanCOVID to optimize Canada’s research response to the COVID-19 public health crisis.
- COVID-19 Resources Canada – A one-stop-shop for those who need COVID-19 resources and connections to those who have extra capacity (or materials).
- Cognit.ca – Access expertise, facilities and IP at Canada’s post-secondary institutions.
- Innovative Medicines Canada COVID-19 Resource Centre – Features the many contributions IMC’s members are making to test for COVID-19, discover new treatments and vaccines, and support healthcare workers and communities in Canada and around the world, as well as Information on drug shortages.
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- Genome Canada: Statement on COVID-19 | Backgrounder on Research Investment | COVID-19 Regional Genomics Initiative
- Canada Research Coordinating Committee via the New Frontiers in Research Fund
- Canadian Frailty Network: Request for Proposals: Frailty and COVID-19
- Stem Cell Network COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Initiative
- National Research Council Canada
- Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster
- Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) Supercluster
- York University: Call for time-sensitive special research proposals with a COVID-19 focus
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) COVID-19 Research Response Fund
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NEWS FROM MAY 27, 2020
Sunnybrook donors help launch once-in-a-lifetime clinical trial to find a new treatment for COVID-19
Canada NewsWire (press release)
“Sunnybrook is the logistics site for all participating centres in Canada … Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is inventing the future of health care for …”
Drug strategies to fight COVID-19 move beyond guesses
CBC.ca
“The field of virology and drug development has advanced so much,” said Arts, who holds a Canada Research Chair in HIV. “It’s day and night.”
Coronavirus halted years of research and Canada needs a strategy to fight back
UCalgary News
“Many graduate students across Canada are in limbo with their research after they had to end experiments in progress or abandon field work when …”
Research to examine emotional well-being of physicians, nurses during pandemic
Globalnews.ca
“The first portion of the research will focus on the McGill University Health Centre Hospital Network. Funding for that was provided by the McGill …”
UM partners with artificial intelligence leader Atomwise to pursue COVID-19 therapies
UM Today (press release)
“Two University of Manitoba researchers have received support from Atomwise, the leader in using artificial intelligence (AI) for small molecule drug …”
UBC scanners could accelerate COVID-19 diagnoses
Business in Vancouver
“A UBC news release said a further 30 scanners would be distributed to urban acute care sites managed by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).”
Ontario Announces First Phase of Research Projects to Fight COVID-19
Government of Ontario News
“Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Through a series of trials, this research will rapidly evaluate the safety and efficacy of using mesenchymal …”
Genome Alberta – Understanding COVID-19 Severity in Children
Canada NewsWire (press release)
“A multi-disciplinary institute of the University of Calgary, Alberta Health Services and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, ACHRI researchers …”
NEWS FROM MAY 26, 2020
Potential COVID-19 vaccine clears ‘major milestone’: Sask. researchers
CBC.ca
“VIDO-InterVac said the ferrets received two immunizations prior to being exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19…”
CT Scan Technology May Detect Unknowing Carriers of COVID-19, Says Ottawa Heart Institute
YouAreUNLTD (blog)
“Doctors at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) are now exploring a new application of CT, one that may soon prove useful in the fight to …”
Innovative Medicines Canada Announces Creation of Research Chair in Pandemic Preparedness
Digital Journal
“Innovative Medicines Canada Announces Creation of Research Chair in Pandemic Preparedness.”
Women, parents and younger adults more likely to feel anxious and depressed during COVID-19
Stockhouse
“… 2020 /CNW/ – The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital, in collaboration with Delvinia, …”
Three NS doctors named to COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Leadership Group
CTV News
“… of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology, a partnership of Dalhousie, IWK Health Centre and NSHA have all been named to the task force leadership …”
New Carleton Research finds COVID—19 not Flattening Vaccine Hesitancy
Carleton Newsroom (press release)
“Researchers in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, in partnership with Abacus Data, recently completed a national …”
Western students create mental health website for youth and parents
CTV News
“… we can take action and prevent things getting worse for the children and the family,” says Kristin Legault, a Western University psychology student.”
Alberta researchers part of rush to learn vitamin D’s role in COVID-19 prevention
CTV News
“Nurses recount ‘hell’ in Laval, Canada’s new COVID-19 epicentre, and ask what … Health which states that while early research warrants further study…”
Here’s what needs to happen before we can all get vaccinated for COVID-19
CBC.ca
“For example, in 2009, Health Canada used an interim order to approve an H1N1 vaccine based on clinical trial data in Europe, even though clinical …”
NEWS FROM MAY 22, 2020
New Carleton research finds COVID—19 not flattening vaccine hesitancy
Carleton Newsroom (press release)
“Researchers in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, in partnership with Abacus Data, recently completed a national …”
Warning sounded about possible COVID second-wave readiness
Radio Canada International (en)
“Claire Betker, the president of the Canadian Nurses Association, says the virus is ‘still very much alive.’ (Submitted by Canadian Nurses Association).”
Researcher worries Trump-related politics could play role in COVID-19 drug trial
CBC.ca
“… in conjunction with the University of Minnesota in the United States and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Quebec.”
Health Canada Clears Appili Therapeutics’ Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating Favipiravir as a …
The Kingston Whig-Standard
“Investigators from the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Unity Health Toronto are also participating in the study.”
Montreal researchers are preparing to test potential COVID-19 vaccines
Montreal Gazette
“The Vaccine Study Centre at the McGill University Health Centre on Friday emailed out a request for research participants who wanted to be a part of …”
Ontario Announces First Phase of Research Projects to Fight COVID-19
Government of Ontario News
“This clinical trial will enroll patients 16 years of age and older admitted to hospital with COVID-19 and who require supplemental oxygen for respiratory …”
Epidemiologist creates three models for M’Chigeeng pandemic scenarios
Manitoulin Expositor
“… Dr. Jennifer Walker, a Laurentian University Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health, the modelling document offers three different scenarios.”
Alberta researchers part of rush to learn vitamin D’s role in COVID-19 prevention
CTV News
“Dr. Frank H. Lau at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans discusses COVID-19 ad what low levels of Vitamin D can mean in a patient.”
Apolitically Speaking: Taking the Politics Out of COVID-19 and Putting the Science into Politics
by Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety
“Political parties are essential instruments in the working democratic representative government,” said F.H. Underhill, the Canadian journalist, essayist, historian and past Chair of Carleton University’s Department of History. He goes on to say that, “If public opinion, upon which democratic …” […]
OTTAWA, April 24, 2020 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced, during Thursday’s daily briefing, an additional $1.1 billion for a national medical and research strategy to address COVID-19 so that Canada can make progress on vaccines, testing, national […]
Stem Cell Network Announces $675,000 for Three Canadian-led COVID-19 Research Projects
OTTAWA, April 23, 2020 – The Stem Cell Network (SCN), Canada’s national leader in stem cell and regenerative medicine research, announced today the funding of three new research projects that will contribute to the global response […]
COVID-19: The End of the Beginning of Health Digitalization
by Ryan Wiley, Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety, Anne Mullin, Don Walkinshaw, and Natasha Malik
While it is admittedly early to contemplate the far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Canada’s health system, one thing is already unequivocally clear […]
The Business of Canada is Now Science: A Message from the PCEO
by Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety
I read a recent article in The Atlantic by Derek Thompson about The Four Rules of Pandemic Economics. The fourth rule, according to Thompson, is a plea for a lot more science… […]
The Parliamentary Health Research Caucus has been fortunate to have Canada’s best and brightest health researchers and health innovators present their research discoveries and new technologies to Parliamentarians[…]
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