Health committee  I think it is the right thing to do. I think the experience from the HIV epidemic is that intellectual property rights really slowed the delivery of antiretrovirals. We do have large production facilities at several places in the developing world that could ramp up if intellectua

Health committee  Because more and more people are getting vaccinated, the need will decrease somewhat, but it is by no means going away. Many people don't respond well to the vaccines, such as people with underlying immunocompromising conditions. We are seeing these people come down with COVID de

Health committee  I have a number of colleagues across sub-Saharan Africa. They are all complaining about limitations in availability of vaccine. They say that the government says it's available, but when they go, the cupboards are bare. They have to wait for long periods of time for either the fi

Health committee  Yes, I can hear you. The question is whether I'll be able to hear Dr. Powlowski.

Health committee  Now, I can. That's great.

Health committee  Thanks. The issue of school openings and closures has been highly debated. However, there is strong consensus that because of both the short-term and long-term developmental and mental health risks of missing in-person learning and the low likelihood of severe physical harm to c

Health committee  We are using them at Western, but we've been hamstrung by a couple of things. First of all, it's been very slow. There is one monoclonal available, which is bamlanivimab, a combination of monoclonals, which has just been approved by Health Canada but is still not available. As w

Health committee  I'm sorry. I can't hear Dr. Powlowski.

Health committee  I'm sorry. I couldn't hear Dr. Chandra either, so it's possible there's something wrong on this side.

Health committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. I would like to address the issue of health care worker COVID vaccination. Vaccination of health care workers has been an incredibly effective intervention in the control of COVID-19. A study by the Cleveland veterans affair