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Dr. Upton Allen from SickKids leads team assessing COVID-19 prevalence, risk factors among Black Canadian communities

September 15, 2020

Medical researchers from SickKids are conducting largescale antibody testing and data collection to understand the prevalence of COVID-19 infection in Black Canadian communities.

Researchers and teachers provide initial observations from school simulation study

September 14, 2020

SickKids researchers and teachers involved in a COVID-19 safe schools simulation study have compiled preliminary observations and key learnings from their experience.

SickKids researchers studying plasma of COVID-19 survivors

May 29, 2020

SickKids is helping lead a cross-country effort to better understand and create a therapy to treat COVID-19 with convalescent plasma.

Plasma stand next to boy with boxing gloves on his hands

SickKids statement on deferring in-person school attendance

January 8, 2021

Taking the time now to focus on lowering the level of community transmission and enhancing in-school mitigation strategies is critical to ensuring everyone’s safety.

SickKids and Holland Bloorview launch COVID-19 testing sites for children with medical complexity, developmental conditions

December 14, 2020

SickKids and Holland Bloorview are joining forces to make COVID-19 testing for children with medical complexity and children with developmental conditions more convenient and less stressful for them and their families.

SickKids experiencing COVID-19 outbreak in non-patient care area

December 4, 2020

SickKids is no longer experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 among staff in the Core Lab, a clinical testing lab in the hospital.

Parents, have you done your homework? Children’s Health Coalition launches new campaign to help parents get up to speed on the COVID-19 vaccine for kids

February 1, 2022

Just as children are asked to do their homework, now it’s time for parents to do their own to make an informed choice about COVID-19 vaccination for their children.