MONTREAL After nine long months of planning, an infectious diseases specialist is finally launching the city’s first post-COVID 19 clinic at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), with patients already scheduled for appointments this Friday. “I’m tremendously grateful that it’s seeing the light of day and I’m excited to see these patients, to hear their stories and to start to get some answers,” clinic director Dr. Emilia Liana Falcone told CTV news in an interview. Montreal’s post-COVID project has a dual mission: to provide patient care and to support research that Falcone hopes will one day help doctors evaluate, treat and better understand the full impact of the disease.