A recent study finds that 75 per cent of the Canadian population had detectable antibodies from COVID-19 through infections by March 2023.
COVID-19Researchers from the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force , in collaboration with seven research studies, shared the findings in a study published in theResearchers studied the Canadian population’s trends in infection and vaccination in three phases: prevaccination , vaccine roll-out , and the arrival of the Omicron variant . They also measured infection rates by geographical region and age using a time-series approach and data from more than 900,000 individual samples from 10 provinces.
"Despite high vaccine coverage in Canada, all previous increases in seroprevalence due to infection were dwarfed by the increase caused by the Omicron variant," said CITF associate scientific director and study lead Dr. Bruce Mazer in a"After 6 months of the Omicron variant circulating in Canada, infection-acquired seroprevalence had risen to 47 per cent by mid-June 2022, with an average monthly increase of 6.
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