The COVID-19 pandemic is back in force in Quebec, which is facing a seventh wave. More than 1,000 new people are infected with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants every day, and the milestone of 15,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic has been reached. In the Quebec health system, the number of workers absent this week due to illness is estimated at 7,000.
Our journalist Marie-Ève DuSablon and the Dr André Veillette, director of the Molecular Oncology Research Unit of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, answered questions from our readers on Wednesday noon.
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