Lockdowns Around the World
No one knows life under lockdown better than people living in Toronto. The city has spent most of the pandemic under strict public health restrictions and has experienced one of...
COVID-19: Defining a new generation
Not infected does not mean unaffected. Although this is true for people of any age during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially true of children. “Generation COVID”, also known as...
All bets are off: Canada’s venture for vaccines
I thought a phrase like this was a thing of the past. It belonged in a primitive era, where survival of the fittest was the dominant way of life. It...
Issue 2, 2021 – Cover
With the steadfast development of vaccines, the light at the end of the tunnel appears to be almost within our grasp. Are we finally moving into a post-pandemic world and...
Letter from the Editors – Volume 9, Issue 2
“THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT.” - George Santayana The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way we interact with the environment. As rules become lax...
Letter from the Chair – Volume 9, Issue 2
I am certain that it is very safe to say that we are all looking forward to “A Post-Pandemic World”, and this issue of IMMpress Magazine explores what that future...
Jack Of All Trades: An Alumni Interview with Dr. Jason Fine
Dr. Jason Fine completed his PhD in 2012 in Dr. James R. Carlyle’s laboratory at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. His area of study was on how natural killer cells recognize...
Pandemic Bestsellers: The Stand by Stephen King
Captain Trips. It sounds like a name for children’s cereal and not a deadly superbug that kills 99% of humanity. When Stephen King first wrote The Stand in 1978, he...
