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COVID-19 Education


Drugs and Vaccines for COVID-19

  • This page discusses Health Canada's efforts to ensure drugs and vaccines are available to Canadians and health care workers throughout COVID-19.
  • This page includes information on Health Canada's drug and vaccine regulations, COVID-19 variants, the possible drugs and vaccines to treat COVID-19, clinical trials, market authorizations, the Special Access Program (SAP), and how drug shortages are being addressed.

Managing the Spread of COVID-19

  • This guidance document was prepared to identify non-pharmaceutical public health measures used to limit the spread of COVID-19 on a community and individual level.
  • The aim of this guidance is to provide mitigation strategies and measures to be applied to community, workplace and youth settings, along with outdoor spaces and gatherings/events.

COVID-19 Surveillance Objectives

  • This document identifies the two most important objectives of COVID-19 surveillance, which are identifying cases and outbreaks, and understanding the epidemiologic features of COVID-19.
  • This report highlights the surveillance case definitions for identifying SARS-CoV-2 in order to have a standardized method of classification and reporting to the Public Health Agency of Canada. 

Caring for Someone with COVID-19

  • This page outlines the advice of the Public Health Agency of Canada regarding how to care for a person who has COVID-19.
  • It includes the necessary supplies, how to protect yourself from contracting the virus, how to effectively clean/disinfect your home, how to protect healthy members within the home, how to monitor symptoms, and the procedure for self-isolating once in contact with a positive COVID-19 case.

COVID-19 Transmission

  • This report contains the information discussed by the Chief Science Advisor Expert Panel on COVID-19 regarding how SARS-CoV-2 impacts indoor air quality and how the bioaerosol transmission of the virus and how knowledge of this kind can help in the reopening of schools.
  • Throughout two discussions, the expert panel observed that the main method of the virus transmission is through close contact through droplets or aerosols, however, transmission is still possible t