What Will the Vaccine Feel Like? As we prepare for the upcoming COVID-19 vaccines to become available, some of you may be wondering what kind of experience you can expect during and after the inoculations. Both Oxford/Moderna and Pfizer’s vaccine candidates utilize brand new mRNA technology and trick your body into producing proteins with theContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 266”
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COVID-19 Diary – Day 265
Health Canada: Pfizer Vaccine Decision Coming Soon After yesterday’s announcement that the UK had given Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine emergency approval for use, Health Canada has made its own statement today: While there is no official target date provided, it seems likely that we can expect to hear more from Health Canada in the coming daysContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 265”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 264
Long Term Symptoms Revisited About 1.5 months ago, we reported on a BC local post-COVID-19 recovery clinic operating out of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, the first of its kind in Canada (although one in Montreal is planned to open shortly). In the time since that post, additional data has come to light, providing aContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 264”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 260
Majority of Canadians to Receive Vaccine by September 2021 Earlier today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced to press that he believes the majority of Canadians will have received vaccinations by September of next year. A sentiment that was later echoed by Canada’s deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo, while also being called “optimistic”Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 260”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 257
Canada Won’t Be First to Receive Vaccine Earlier today Prime Minister Trudeau announced to Canadians that Canada would not be the first to receive the newly developed COVID-19 vaccines from any of the major developers. These developers will be providing their initial shipments to their home countries first, before honouring their agreements with Canada andContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 257”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 249
Weekly Charts As you can see from the above chart, over the last week we saw about 1000 more new cases reported than we did the previous week, and almost double the total number of new cases than we saw the week before that! Our new case numbers continue to be a concern, and inContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 249”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 242
Weekly Chart Update It’s Monday and that means it’s time for another chart update. We see from the above chart that last week’s total case count was more than 1,000 cases higher than the previous week’s total. This marks the first time we’ve seen week-to-week numbers with such a high increase between them. The recordContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 242”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 238
By Popular Demand: A Search Bar Almost since the first day of this website being open to the public we have had requests to add a search bar. Today we are happy to announce that we have added search bars to our Home and Blog pages, for your convenience. Why did it take us soContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 238”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 232
Antibody Tests Now Available in BC Did you experience COVID-like symptoms earlier in the year but were refused an opportunity to get a PCR swab test at the time? You may be interested in a new service now being offered by Life Labs, COVID-19 antibody testing! Many people have been looking for this opportunity forContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 232”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 225
Canada Makes Another Vaccine Agreement Earlier today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada had made an agreement to purchase 76 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Medicago in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline. This marks the first vaccine candidate Canada has entered into an agreement to purchase that is being developed domestically. This isContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 225”
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