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Western teams recruited in effort to combat COVID-19
From Western News, March 6, 2020
By Debora van Brenk
Two Western research teams have been named key players in an accelerated national effort to understand and control the spread of COVID-19.
Projects led by Anita Kothari and Maxwell Smith were named as part of a $26.7-million suite of grants announced today by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to fast-track a comprehensive Canadian response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Canadawide grants invested in 47 research teams to study prevention, treatment, drug development, transmission pathways, co-ordination and logistics, ethics and public-health response as well as tackle misinformation, stigma and fear, Minister of Health Patty Hajdu and Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains said in making the announcement (continue reading).
