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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.
MONTREAL — Experts say delaying the second dose of some COVID-19 vaccines could lead to the emergence of new variants of the virus — but there s no sign it has happened yet. "It s a . . .
Veillette, who is a member of the federal government s COVID-19 vaccine task force, said there s a concern that the immunity provided by one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines is not as strong as you would get with two doses. That weaker immune response, especially in older people whose immune systems don t respond as well to vaccines, may favour the selection of variants, Veillette said in an interview Wednesday. Quebec has responded to Canada s COVID-19 vaccine shortage by delaying the second dose of the two-dose vaccines. Public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda has said he believes that giving more people a single shot will save more lives than giving fewer people two doses.