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...
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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...
Life After COVID: An Exclusive Interview with Immunology Students
Picture this: a world beyond the pandemic. Perhaps this optimism is unearned and a little premature with the unceasing daily barrage of COVID-19 news and recent surges of the Delta...
From physical to digital: The technological age of contact tracing
For many people, life during the COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by physical isolation, where our only social connections happen through a digital screen. Social distancing, wearing face coverings in...
The long-term effects of ‘Long COVID’ on a post-pandemic world
Over the last 17 months, the world has been dealing with the burden caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the deaths of over 4 million people globally. While...
A post-pandemic pandemic
An underrepresented consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is, in fact, another pandemic, one of mental health. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) reported that half of all Canadians...