With more than 140 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development, the race is on for a successful candidate to help prevent COVID-19. But according to a new paper published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) there are challenges in evaluating the efficacy of these vaccines during the pandemic.
Congratulations to the BC Children’s, BC Women’s and University of British Columbia doctoral students who were awarded a prestigious 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Dr. Soren Gantt, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and director of clinical research at BC Children’s Hospital and associate professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia, talks about the prevalence of cCMV, how it’s detected and what can be done to avoid transmission.
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