Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is among the experts quoted by the National Post.
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Published on: 28 Jun 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted by the Globe and Mail.
"鈥r. Catherine Hankins, a professor of public and population health at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, distinctly remembers reading the now-iconic MMWR report 40 years ago. "It was one of those 'where were you when鈥�' moments," she said.
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Published on: 7 Jun 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted by the Toronto Star.
鈥�"It's not the sole reflection of what is going on in the community," said 9I制作厂免费 public health professor Dr. Catherine Hankins.
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Published on: 5 May 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted in the Montreal Gazette.
"With 1,009 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Saturday and 917 on Sunday, concerns of a third wave in Quebec mounted on the weekend. 鈥淚 was so hopeful a week ago,鈥� said Catherine Hankins, co-chair of Canada鈥檚 COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, launched in April 2020 to track the spread of the virus and immune responses to it."
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Published on: 29 Mar 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted in a recent Daily Mail Article.
"鈥�" It makes a lot of sense to try to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible," said Catherine Hankins, a 9I制作厂免费 epidemiologist and co-chair of another federal advisory group, the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force."
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Published on: 25 Mar 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted in the Montreal Gazette.
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Published on: 19 Mar 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force discusses prospects for achieving mass immunization.
"Vaccination frenzy grips Canada. This week saw several major developments in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Health Canada approved a fourth vaccine, while provinces moved quickly to extend the window in which a second dose can be administered."
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Published on: 9 Mar 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is featured by CBC News.
"The co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force says she's now "very much in favour" of delaying the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines for shots that must be administered under a two-dose regimen."
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Published on: 9 Mar 2021
COVID-19 research will soon bring "avalanche" of immunity data - Montreal Gazette, February 19, 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada鈥檚 COVID-19 Immunity Task Force whose Secretariat is housed at the SPGH, spoke to the Montreal Gazette about the expected results of the surveys and studies supported by the Task Force.
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Published on: 19 Feb 2021
Today, 聽and Canada鈥檚 聽are releasing initial results of the first 10,000 blood donor samples assessed for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. This analysis reveals that over the period May 9 through June 8, 2020, fewer than 1 per cent of the 10,000 samples from blood donors tested positive for antibodies to the novel coronavirus.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2020
When Catherine Hankins first arrived in Montreal in 1986, she never expected she'd get into a spat with the聽provincial health minister. But eight months into a job in聽Montreal's public health department she made headlines for doing just that. The Alberta-born community medicine specialist had moved to Montreal just聽as a mysterious and little-understood new disease was terrorizing the gay community.
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Published on: 11 May 2020
After one week on the job, members of the federal government鈥檚 new immunity task force say they are coming to grips with a towering wall of uncertainty that obscures the true extent of COVID-19 in Canada.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment 鈥� because so little is known about how many people are immune to the COVID-19 virus,聽or how long such immunity might last. "This is all going to be tricky," said Dr. Catherine Hankins, who co-chairs the leadership group of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force 鈥� part of the federal government's anti-pandemic research strategy.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
The Government of Canada to measure the scope of coronavirus infection in Canada and rapidly provide information needed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and safely get Canadians back to work.
The COVID-19 Immunity Task Force will generate this vital information, drawing on experts from universities and hospitals across Canada and working closely with provincial and territorial public health officials.
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Published on: 23 Apr 2020
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