Medical schools are being inundated with applications from those who want to join the field. The number of students applying to medical school for the upcoming 2021 academic year is up by 18%.

The six lucky people who got the unexpected shot in the arm were elated. One “vaccinatee” was so psyched, he jumped out of his car and stripped off his shirt in the blizzard to get his injection.

BioNTech, the German firm which together with Pfizer created one of the COVID-19 vaccines, says they have used the same technology to create a vaccine which delayed the onset and reduced the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice.

CIHR joined forces with PHAC and the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), located in Halifax, to conduct a Phase I clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine, on local residents. “CIRN has an excellent reputation and features an emergency rapid response infrastructure,” said Dr. Ouellette. “This facilitates the fast application, peer review, approval, and funding of clinical trials.” The first step for CIRN was to ask healthy volunteers to participate. The public response was extraordinary.