COVID-19: Canada and World
The first line of vaccines was highly effective at restricting COVID-19’s damage
7 minute read Yesterday at 1:16 PM CDTThis article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site.
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Authors: Nana Wu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University; Keven Joyal-Desmarais, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University and Simon Bacon, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, Concordia University
After more than three years of COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over 763 million infections, and nearly seven million deaths, have been attributed to SARS-CoV-2.
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