The pandemic is back in force in Quebec, as the province faces a 7e vague. Currently, more than 1,000 new people are infected daily with COVID-19 and its variants, and the milestone of 15,000 deaths has been reached in Quebec since the start of the pandemic, 30 months ago. In the health system, an estimated 7,000 workers were absent this week due to COVID-19.
Our journalist Marie-Ève DuSablon and the Dr André Veillette, director of the Molecular Oncology Research Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, answers questions from our readers.