CoVaRR-Net Funded Publications
CoVaRR-Net was extremely productive with regards to scientific outputs relative to the research funding investments it received. In its four years of operation, the Network’s members produced 139 peer-reviewed research publications, 12 preprints and 15 other types of publications, including live systematic reviews and public health recommendations.
In an effort to make the science more understandable to a wider audience, CoVaRR-Net wrote lay summaries of many of its funded publications, listed below.
The Creation of a Centralized Database for Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance
The Public Health and Environmental Surveillance Database (PHESD, pronounced “phased”) is a data repository used to store Canadian and international wastewater and other environmental surveillance data.
Developing a Model to Record Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance Data
CoVaRR-Net researchers have been helping to build the Public Health and Environmental Surveillance Open Data Model (PHES-ODM).
Population Genomics Approaches for Genetic Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 genome has been sequenced at an unprecedented scale. This enables the scientific community to detect many genetic mutations that occur during its evolution, including variants of concern that have spread quickly in the human population.
Detection of prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variant lineages in wastewater and clinical sequences from cities in Québec, Canada
The ongoing pandemic wave caused by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has overwhelmed PCR testing capacity in many parts of the world, including Canada.
COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout: Saskatchewan
One of a series of provincial case studies, this report can be used to understand Saskatchewan’s program in depth, as well as to compare and contrast provincial COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.
COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout: Ontario
Ontario’s decentralized rollout provided its 34 public health units with the flexibility to support local needs and its unique hot-spot approach re-allocated additional doses to high-risk communities.
Monitoring the evolution and spread of Delta sublineages AY.25 and AY.27 in Canada
Over the summer and fall of 2021, CoVaRR-Net scientists, as part of the Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCOGeN), partnered with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) and the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN) to investigate the Delta variant and its diverse sub-lineages, which collectively became dominant around the world.