SARS

• Shared purpose bringing individuals together key to COVID-19 response

  The experience of SARS helped Shiran Isaacksz learn early in his career how having a shared purpose can bring people together to create something lasting and meaningful, he writes.

  Commentary

  Apr 26
• A world upside down: Wuhan returns to normal while rest of the world reels

  A year after its unprecedented COVID-19 lockdown, Wuhan markets and restaurants are bustling, and life is basically back to normal, as Canada and the rest of the world struggle.

  Health

  Feb 6
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• What happened to… SARS?

  On this episode of the Global News podcast Whatever Happened To…?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the SARS epidemic that gripped parts of Canada in 2003.

  Canada

  Dec 31, 2020
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• ‘They need our backing’: Ontario’s Nigerian community reflects on #EndSARS police protests

  “Even though you might not be Nigerian, even though you might not have people out there you care about, just think whatever you do it’s going to impact if Nigeria gets the change it is looking for."

  World

  Oct 29, 2020
• Canada failed to learn lessons from SARS in order to combat coronavirus: report

  Canada put health-care workers at risk of contracting COVID-19 and taking it home to their families because it failed to learn lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, a new report says.

  Canada

  Oct 5, 2020
• UBC professor uses knowledge of SARS to develop COVID-19 drug

  Dr. Josef Penninger, a UBC life sciences institute director, co-discovered an enzyme called ACE2 while working as a researcher in Toronto in the late 90s.

  Health

  Sep 24, 2020
• More Canadians have now died of coronavirus than SARS

  As of Friday, COVID-19 has killed more Canadians than SARS did in 2003.

  Canada

  Mar 27, 2020
• Winnipeg’s microbiology lab playing pivotal role in the fight against COVID-19

  Winnipeg is home to the only Level 4 lab in Canada and it's the battleground when it comes to the fight against infectious diseases and deadly viruses like COVID-19.

  Health

  Mar 24, 2020
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• Track, isolate, communicate: Here’s how coronavirus strategies vary worldwide

  Some strategies are proving more effective than others in containing the pandemic.

  World

  Mar 18, 2020
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• Roughly 55 million N95 masks in Ontario expired before coronavirus hit

  Ontario stockpiled some 55 million N95 masks and other medical equipment after the SARS epidemic. Officials have confirmed that the masks in the stockpile have passed their expiration date.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2020