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Vaxx Populi: Data shows good immunity nine months after receiving two doses, PHAC says, though need for boosters is being ’closely monitored’ in light of emergence of variants of concern

Whether it’s Pfizer, Moderna or Astra Zeneca, the vaccines used in Canada ’are doing exactly what they should be doing,’ including against the Delta variant

Phil Nuytten, 79, created the 2.1 metre-tall, 1,400 lb apparatus designed to keep any human pilot inside from being squeezed to death by the pressures of the deep sea

Experts say the two mRNA vaccines are interchangeable as millions of doses of both Pfizer and Moderna arrive in Canada

Variants of SARS-CoV-2 arise through errors in the virus’s replication process. But some mistakes give the virus a deadly advantage.

Vaxx Populi: Researchers are getting faster at recognizing, diagnosing and treating VITT, and there is hope that they’re zeroing in on what causes it

Vaxx Populi: If you got a first dose of AstraZeneca, you can choose to get an mRNA vaccine for your second dose. Pfizer and Moderna will also be interchangeable as second doses.

Vaxx Populi: Recent polling has shown 85 per cent of Canadians have either received a first vaccine dose or want to receive one. And that’s up from 76 per cent in February.

Vaxx Populi: We need 75 per cent of adults to have a first dose and 20 to have a second. How soon might we get there?

The billion-year-old water might help unlock one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions: Could there be life on other planets?