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Health Canada received a submission from Moderna on June 29, 2023 for yet another reformulated COVID-19 vaccine based on the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2. [131] The updated version was tested in a small human trial of 101 participants who had previously received four doses of previous formulations of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, more commonly referred to as the Krever Commission or Krever Inquiry, was a royal commission of inquiry into the tainted blood scandal, investigating how the Canadian Red Cross and the provincial and federal governments allowed contaminated blood into the healthcare system.
The EMA also initiated an assessment for all COVID‑19 vaccines used in the EU for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), described as low blood platelet levels that could lead to bruising and bleeding, as a possible side effect, whilst also stating that up to this point no link with any COVID‑19 had been established. [12]
European pharma giant AstraZeneca Plc’s (NASDAQ:AZN) Covid vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, is facing a class action lawsuit alleging its vaccine caused death and serious injury ...
On December 23, 2020, Health Canada approved the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna. [8] The first tranche of vaccines of a total 53,000 designated for Ontario by the end of 2020 arrived at Toronto Pearson International Airport on December 24. [9] [10] [11] Over the Christmas and holiday season, many vaccination clinics were paused ...
Many news articles, TV interviews and posts on social media appeared in 2021 to highlight either the anger of individuals whose children or immune compromised family members either caught COVID-19 or were impacted by vaccine hesitancy or those who were vaccine hesitant and later tested positive.
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Users of this vaccine passport, the first in Canada, faced fewer COVID-19 public health restrictions. [2] By early July, the demand for the paper vaccine passports temporarily overwhelmed the system. At the same time, the province reached a new "marker in the pandemic"—the COVID-19 vaccines supply exceeded "demand on a daily basis." [2] [44]