How immune are you after one or two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine?

TORONTO, May 26, 2021 – What level of immunity against COVID-19 do you have after being vaccinated or contracting the virus? York University Professor Jane Heffernan is receiving a $200,000, one-year grant from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to understand the rate of immunity in both of these scenarios.

Shorter lockdowns could lead to fewer COVID-19 infections

TORONTO, Feb. 24, 2021 – Shorter, but more frequent lockdowns, could lead to fewer cases of COVID-19 than the current practice of long lockdowns, found York University researchers, whose modelling considers individual decisions around the personal cost of complying to social measures.