COVID-19 Updates

Hi everyone! These are the new COVID-19 updates.

Quebec Cases

As of November 15, there has been:

• 123, 854 confirmed cases

• 104,848 recoveries

• 6,626 deaths

in Quebec.

Canada Cases

As of November 15, there has been:

• 296,077 confirmed cases

• 236,384 recoveries

• 10,953 deaths

in Canada.

Global Cases

As of November 15, there has been:

• 54,370,756 confirmed cases

• 34,965,983 recoveries

• 1,317,140 deaths

globally.

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Is There a COVID-19 Vaccine Yet?

Pfizer and BioNTech announced on November 9 that their vaccine candidate against COVID-19 is 90 percent effective. This is a Phase 3 clinical trial that started on July 27. The Phase 3 clinical trial is the final trial step before approval. It will end when 164 infections are recorded and when at least half of the participants have been tracked for side effects for at least two months. Since 94 infections have been recorded so far, the trial is waiting for 70 more infections amongst participants. Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO's senior adviser, said that the vaccine can "fundamentally change the direction of this crisis" by March. Furthermore, on August 5, it was announced that Canada had already preordered this vaccine. Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that they can produce up to 50 million doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.

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I hope that you enjoyed this blog post. I know that these are very hard times, but we will get through this!