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Nearly half of parents willing to accept less rigorous testing of COVID-19 vaccine

UBC experts on COVID-19 vaccine

The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arrived in Canada Sunday night. UBC experts are available to comment:

Dec 14, 2020

UBC In The News

Dec 14, 2020

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Pregnant women with COVID-19 at increased risk of hospitalization, ICU admission and early labour

While much remains unknown about the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy, emerging data from a national surveillance project reveals pregnant women with COVID-19 seem to be at greater risk of being hospitalized, being admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), and going into early labour.

Dec 14, 2020