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If the Year of Pandemic has taught us anything about COVID-19, it is that there is always more to learn.
One year ago Ottawa’s Patient Zero walked into the General campus of The Ottawa Hospital with mild symptoms that turned out to be COVID-19. Officials now suspect the virus was already circulating in the city by then and had not been detected. So Patient Zero might not have been the first case in Ottawa after all.
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The Ottawa Hospital’s Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre is producing three experimental COVID-19 vaccines for human trials.
The first of the three, a DNA-based vaccine called Covigenix VAX-001, is already headed to Halifax for a Phase 1 clinical trial, likely to begin within a week, pending permission from Health Canada.
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“They’ve just finished. It’s all ready to go. They are literally printing the labels,” said John Lewis, CEO of Entos Pharmaceuticals in Alberta, which developed the vaccine.
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Publishing date: Jan 03, 2021 • January 3, 2021 • 1 minute read • The Experimental Farm was a popular place to be in Ottawa Sunday Aug 16, 2020. Family and friends gathered to take photos in front of the many millions of sun flowers Sunday. Lucken Calixte holds up his daughter Afair Heart in the sun flowers. Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia
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Well, 2020 was definitely a memorable year, to say the least. The novel coronavirus pandemic is what most people will remember 50 years from now but the past year has been about so much more than that. Our city and our lives, are defined by the small moments, by the bonds of community, by shared triumphs and shared tragedy. Throughout it all, we still managed to live our lives.