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References

How can I protect myself from COVID-19?

1. Harvard Health Publishing. If you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus. August 9, 2021

2. World Health Organization. Avoid the Three Cs. Accessed September 2021.

3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19. March 3, 2021.

4. Science. Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses. August 27, 2021.

5. Government of Ontario. COVID-19 vaccinations data. September 19, 2021.

6. Nebraska Medicine. COVID-19 natural immunity versus vaccination. September 13, 2021.

7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection. August 6, 2021.

8. Government of Canada. At home: Using ventilation and filtration to reduce the risk of aerosol transmission of COVID-19. April 12, 2021.

9. The Lancet. Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study. January 19, 2021.

10. World Health Organization. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Masks. December 1, 2020.

11. World Health Organization. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: When and how to use masks. December 1, 2020.

12. Government of Canada. Non-medical masks: About. February 11, 2021.

How does COVID-19 spread from person to person?

1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19. April 27, 2021.

2. Science. Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses. August 27, 2021.

3. Scripps Research. How does the novel coronavirus infect a cell? July 13, 2020.

4. Harvard Health Publishing. If you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus. August 9, 2021.

5. The Conversation. Four factors that increase the risk of vaccinated people getting COVID. September 9, 2021.

6. Nebraska Medicine. COVID-19 natural immunity versus vaccination. September 13, 2021.

7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection. August 6, 2021.

8. Public Health Ontario. Considerations for Ontario Fall and Winter 2021 COVID-19 Planning. July 23, 2021.

How did we develop the COVID-19 vaccines so efficiently?

1. Health Canada. COVID-19 Vaccines: Authorized Vaccines. September 16, 2021.

2. HIV-Vaccine trial that took 18 months to meet the target recruitment of 5,000 people and another 18 months to have enough HIV infections to run a statistical analysis. From The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Trial of a Recombinant Glycoprotein 120 Vaccine to Prevent HIV-1 Infection. March 1, 2005.

3. HPV vaccination trial that took 13 months to recruit 5,000 volunteers but had to wait three years until enough infections had occurred that they could analyze the results. From The New England Journal of Medicine. Quadrivalent Vaccine against Human Papillomavirus to Prevent Anogenital Diseases. May 10, 2007.

4. World Health Organization. Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it. Accessed September 2021.

5. US National Library of Medicine. COVID-19 Studies from the World Health Organization Database. Accessed September 2021.

6. Nature. The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines — and what it means for other diseases. December 18, 2020.

7. Canadian Institutes of Health. The long road to mRNA vaccines. July 30, 2021.

8. National Institute on Aging. What Are Clinical Trials and Studies? April 9, 2020.

9. SciBeh COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook & Wiki. The COVID-19 Vaccine Development Process. Accessed September 19, 2021.

10. World Health Organization, Europe. Vaccine safety and false contraindications to vaccine: Training Manual. Accessed September 2021.

11. Government of Canada. Vaccines and treatments for COVID-19: Safety after authorization. April 15, 2021.

12. ArcGIS. COVID-19 Dashboard. Accessed September 2021.

13. Government of Canada. Reported side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada. Accessed September 2021.

How can I talk about COVID-19 with the people I care about?

1. SciBeh COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook & Wiki. The COVID-19 Vaccine Development Process. Accessed September 19, 2021.

2. University of Missouri Health Care. Does the COVID-19 Vaccine Affect Fertility? Here’s What the Experts Say. Accessed September 2021.

3. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Do COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Infertility? June 2, 2021.

How do vaccines help my immune system to protect me from COVID-19?

1. The Scripps Research Institute. How does the novel coronavirus infect a cell? Accessed October 2021.

2. John Hopkins Medicine. The Immune System. Accessed October 2021.

3. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Understanding How COVID-19 Vaccines Work. May 27, 2021.

4. Nebraska Medicine. COVID-19 natural immunity versus vaccination. September 20, 2021.

5. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection. August 6, 2021.

6. Health Canada. COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. September 16, 2021.

7. Health Canada. COVID-19 viral vector-based vaccines. September 16, 2021.

8. Women’s College Hospital. First Nations, Inuit & Métis Perspectives & Knowledge Sharing on COVID-19 Vaccines. January 2021.

9. BC Centre for Disease Control. COVID-19 Vaccination: Why your second dose is important. August 27, 2021.

10. The New England Journal of Medicine. Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine. December 30, 2020.

What is Community Immunity – How getting vaccinated protects everyone.

1. Nebraska Medicine. COVID-19 natural immunity versus vaccination. September 20, 2021.

2. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection. August 6, 2021.

3. Public Health Ontario. Considerations for Ontario Fall and Winter 2021 COVID-19 Planning. July 23, 2021.

4. Nature. How the Delta variant achieves its ultrafast spread. July 21, 2021.

5. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Delta Variant Is 60 Percent More Contagious Than Original Virus and Evades Immunity. August 17, 2021.

6. CBC. What do we know about breakthrough COVID-19 cases? Experts break down the science. August 26, 2021.

7. Government of Ontario. COVID-19 vaccinations data. Accessed October 3, 2021.

8. Canadian Paediatric Society. COVID-19 vaccine for children and youth. September 2021.

9. Ontario Ministry of Health. COVID-19 Vaccination Recommendations for Special Populations. September 21, 2021.

10. Ontario Ministry of Health. COVID-19 Vaccination: Special Populations: Vaccination in Pregnancy & Breastfeeding Patient Decision-Making Tool. June 22, 2021.

11. Government of Canada. People who are at risk of more severe disease or outcomes from COVID-19. August 31, 2021.

12. Ontario Ministry of Health. Medical Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccination. September 14, 2021.

Assessing Risks and Benefits – How Can I Make Informed Choices About Vaccination?

1. Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University – COVID-19 Dashboard. 

2. Government of Ontario. All Ontario: Case numbers and spread. September 19, 2021.

3. The Lancet: Respiratory Medicine. Comparison of the characteristics, morbidity, and mortality of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza: a nationwide, population-based retrospective cohort study. December 17, 2020.

4. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics. July 3, 2020.

5. Government of Ontario. COVID-19 vaccinations data. September 19, 2021.

6. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. Post–COVID-19 chronic symptoms: A postinfectious entity? July 28, 2020.

7. Heart Rhythm. COVID-19 cardiac injury: Implications for long-term surveillance and outcomes in survivors. June 26, 2020.

8. Science Table. Understanding the Post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) and the Expected Burden for Ontario. September 14, 2021.

9. HackMD. The COVID-19 Vaccine Development Process. Accessed September 19, 2021.

10. Government of Canada. COVID-19 vaccination in Canada. September 17, 2021.

11. Government of Canada. Reported side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada. September 17, 2021.

12. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Long-term Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccine? What We Know. February 4, 2021.

13. World Health Organization – Europe. Vaccine Safety and False Contraindications to Vaccination: Training Manual. 2017.

Other

1. Nature. Heart-inflammation risk from Pfizer COVID vaccine is very low. October 8th, 2021.

2. Canadian Medical Association Journal. Evaluation of the relative virulence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants: a retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada. October 04, 2021.

3. The New England Journal of Medicine. Safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting. September 16, 2021.