Health committee  The virus is indeed mutating, but the good news about COVID too is that it's mutating far less than influenza, for example. The rate of mutation is pretty low. That does not mean there will not be consequences, because you need only one mutation to have a consequence. For now,

Health committee  That's a very good question. It's important to continue funding research. The only way to fight an unknown enemy—in other words, the next virus—is to know as much as possible about many types of viruses. We have to let researchers work within the broadest scope possible without

Health committee  I believe in a vaccine. A tremendous amount of effort is being poured into it, and we will find one, but it's hard to say when. I think antivirals are essential. I'll tell you outright that the basis of my own personal research is the development of broad-spectrum antiviral drug

Health committee  Good afternoon, members of the committee and fellow witnesses. First of all, let me thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to speak as the president of the Canadian Society for Virology. I am very proud to lead this young not-for-profit society that I co-founde