Health committee  I suspect that the researchers at Dalhousie had some insight into the data. I would hope....

Health committee  I could not tell you. I don't know.

Health committee  Correct.

Health committee  I did not think about that particular aspect of things. The vaccine is actually being tested at Dalhousie under the CIRN group, not under the immunity task force. I think we want to test all vaccines that could be helpful for Canadians.

Health committee  I think there is some research that's happening in Quebec City with a Canadian vaccine. I would hope that vaccine would also make it to the front-runner line for testing.

Health committee  We now have, if I'm not mistaken, published data in The Lancet, which makes it—

Health committee  Possibly, but hopefully when Dalhousie decided to do this trial with the NRC, there was some impetus to also provide the vaccine to Canadians.

Health committee  We tend, as scientists, to believe that science is science, that if we do good clinical trials and if this vaccine were to be approved, Health Canada would do its work in looking at the quality of the vaccine produced and not just—

Health committee  Possibly. I haven't looked at the vaccine itself.

Health committee  You'd have to ask the scientists. I think that various platforms are being used. Using cell lines is one of those ways. It's not the only vaccine that's using cell lines to replicate a virus. As to whether there are other platforms, there probably are, but this is the first vaccine that is actually ready for human trials.

Health committee  Sorry, I lost you there. Could you give me the end of your question, because you froze on my screen?

Health committee  New York has reported some cases; Montreal has seen some as well. We know that this Kawasaki-like disease exists with what we think would also happen with other viruses. We're currently looking to see if children with Kawasaki-like syndrome have been exposed to the virus before.

Health committee  I think what Dalhousie is starting is really a phase one study, which is exactly to look at what you're talking about in terms of safety. I think people have been in high gear about bringing the pre-human candidate vaccine to first-in-human trials because that's when it becomes very important.

Health committee  As I've always said, people should wear masks inside. I'm not sure what led to that decision, but there's no doubt that, on a bus or subway, where people might be only a foot apart, everyone should wear a mask to reduce the virus's spread. A mask protects other people, not the person wearing it.

Health committee  First, it must be shown that the virus can spread in aerosol form, and those studies are under way. That will tell us whether aerosolization of the virus occurred in residential and long-term care centres. Most schools don't have a ventilation system. They rely on natural ventilation, which means opening the windows.