{"id":24177,"date":"2021-03-26T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/mcmaster-university-receives-5-million-for-study-on-vaccines-in-long-term-care\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:19:23","slug":"mcmaster-university-receives-5-million-for-study-on-vaccines-in-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/mcmaster-university-receives-5-million-for-study-on-vaccines-in-long-term-care\/","title":{"rendered":"McMaster University receives $5 million for study on vaccines in long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton\u2019s McMaster University is once again leading the pack in terms of research and innovation, receiving a <a href=\"https:\/\/brighterworld.mcmaster.ca\/articles\/vaccines-and-long-term-care-large-mcmaster-study-receives-5m-in-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$5 million grant to conduct research<\/a> on vaccination against COVID-19 in long-term care settings.<\/p>\n<p>This research \u2013 funded by the federal government\u2019s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force &#8211; marks one of the largest single studies focusing on Canada\u2019s long-term care homes, with the goal of investigating how well vaccination works in long-term care residents.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cVaccines are a critical tool in our response, and this research will support their most effective use.\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPHO_Canada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CPHO_Canada<\/a> Theresa Tam on a study of vaccines and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LongTermCare?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LongTermCare<\/a>, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsMacrophage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MsMacrophage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andrew_P_Costa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Andrew_P_Costa<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacGlobalNexus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MacGlobalNexus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HIwqfRYHaX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/HIwqfRYHaX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; McMaster University (@McMasterU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McMasterU\/status\/1372586347995742215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The year-long study is occurring in partnership with Schlegel Villages, St. Joseph\u2019s Health System, and Health Sciences North Research Institute, and will involve over 2,000 participating residents, staff, and visitors in the long-term care system.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the study\u2019s focus will also be on determining which features of long-term care homes might be associated with outbreaks, and whether or not future outbreaks are likely in homes with previous infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aim to determine how well vaccination works in residents of long-term care homes and discover whether a resident\u2019s previous exposure to the virus or immune system response can protect them or make them vulnerable to further infection,\u201d says Andrew Costa, associate professor of health research methods, evidence, and impact at McMaster.<\/p>\n<p>The study is certainly a vital one. Some of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2019s most devastating impacts have occurred within long-term care settings, with numerous homes in Hamilton reckoning with massive outbreaks of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most notable is <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanicity.com\/hamilton\/city\/2021\/01\/covid-19-outbreak-at-hamiltons-grace-villa-officially-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grace Villa<\/a>, the Hamilton Mountain-based long-term care home that became national news as the city\u2019s largest COVID-19 outbreak, with over 230 confirmed cases of the virus and 44 outbreak-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the study on the <a href=\"https:\/\/brighterworld.mcmaster.ca\/articles\/vaccines-and-long-term-care-large-mcmaster-study-receives-5m-in-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McMaster website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton\u2019s McMaster University is once again leading the pack in terms of research and innovation, receiving a $5 million grant to conduct research on vaccination against COVID-19 in long-term care ...","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":24178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[4999,5203,6173,300,3993,19,20,3086,5491,115,6079,5171,5239,3131,4336,4687,4300,5839,5840],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mac-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28673,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions\/28673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}