March 2021

The Government of Canada, through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF), is supporting a study in the Maritimes aimed at determining which health factors cause long-term care residents to experience severe COVID-19 outcomes, including death.

Last November and for the first time ever, Dalhousie medical students took histories and spoke with their patients in French, in a simulated patient exercise conducted online.

After a long day of gathering information and taking stock of what was available, it was determined that a vacant lab in the LSRI had a freezer that met the exact requirements and could store over 100,000 doses of the vaccine. Not only did the freezer satisfy the storage demands, but it was also attached to backup generators and located close to two hospitals, making it the ideal location for a vaccination clinic.