2021 Volume 47 - Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR)

ISSN: 1481-8531

2021 Volume 47

CCDR Volume 47-12, December 2021: Social Media Responses to COVID-19

• The hepatitis C epidemic in Canada: An overview of recent trends in surveillance, injection drug use, harm reduction and treatment
• Impact of school closures and re-openings on COVID-19 transmission
• Among sheeples and antivaxxers: Social media responses to COVID-19 vaccine news posted by Canadian news organizations, and recommendations to counter vaccine hesitancy
• The PRONTO study: Clinical performance of ID NOW in individuals with compatible SARS-CoV-2 symptoms in walk-in centres—accelerated turnaround time for contact tracing
• COVID-19 outbreak in a long-term care facility in Kelowna, British Columbia after rollout of COVID-19 vaccine in March 2021

CCDR Volume 47-11, November 2021: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children

• Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health: wealthy nations must do much more, much faster
• Decision analysis support for evaluating transmission risk of COVID-19 in places where people gather
• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in Canada
• Rapid review of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in paediatrics: What we know one year later
• The impact of vaccination status on importation of COVID-19 among international travellers
• Re-verifying the elimination of measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Canada, 2016–2020
• Descriptive analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak from a northern Saskatchewan First Nations community—December 2018 to May 2019
• An outbreak of COVID-19 associated with a fitness centre in Saskatchewan: Lessons for prevention
• Invasive bacterial diseases in northern Canada, 1999 to 2018
• A commentary on a flawed public health investigation
• What is the evidence on the Delta variant among children?

CCDR Volume 47-10, October 2021: Influenza Vaccine

• Epidemiology of norovirus and viral gastroenteritis in Ontario, Canada, 2009–2014
• National Influenza Annual Report, Canada, 2020–2021
• Describing the burden of diphtheria in Canada from 2006 to 2017, using hospital administrative data and reportable disease data
• Surveillance of laboratory exposures to human pathogens and toxins, Canada 2020
• Influenza vaccine during the 2019–2020 season and COVID-19 risk: A case-control study in Québec
• HIV self-testing in Ottawa, Canada used by persons at risk for HIV: The GetaKit study

CCDR Volume 47-9, September 2021: FluWatchers: A Crowdsourcing Approach

• Crowdsourced disease surveillance success story: The FluWatchers program
• FluWatchers: Evaluation of a crowdsourced influenza-like illness surveillance application for Canadian influenza seasons 2015–2016 to 2018–2019
• Representativeness of the FluWatchers Participatory Disease Surveillance Program 2015–2016 to 2018–2019: How do participants compare with the Canadian population?
• Summary of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Statement for 2021–2022
• Burden of illness in infants and young children hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus: A rapid review

CCDR Volume 47-7/8, July/August 2021: Infant Botulism in Canada, 1979–2019

• A warning about measurement and methodological issues associated with coronavirus tracking and evaluation across jurisdictions
• COVID-19: A case for the collection of race data in Canada and abroad
• Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults: a rapid review
• Ivermectin treatment for Strongyloides infection in patients with COVID-19
• A summary of surveillance, morbidity and microbiology of laboratory-confirmed cases of infant botulism in Canada, 1979–2019
• A window of opportunity for intensifying testing and tracing efforts to prevent new COVID-19 outbreaks due to more transmissible variants
• The development of a community-based public health response to an outbreak of post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis in a First Nations community
• A public health response to a newly diagnosed case of hepatitis C associated with lapse in Infection Prevention and Control practices in a dental setting in Ontario, Canada
• COVID-19, protective measures and air travel

CCDR: Volume 47-5/6, May/June 2021: Responding to New Clusters of COVID-19

• Population surveillance approach to detect and respond to new clusters of COVID-19
• Trends in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use in eight Canadian provinces, 2014–2018
• Salmonella enterica serovars associated with bacteremia in Canada, 2006–2019
• Beyond flu: trends in respiratory infection outbreaks in Ontario healthcare settings from 2007 to 2017, and implications for non-influenza outbreak management
• Bioaerosols from mouth-breathing: Under-recognized transmissible mode in COVID-19?
• Demonstrating the capacity of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization for timely responses to post-market vaccine monitoring signals: Canada's experience with the live-attenuated influenza vaccine
• Environmental scan of provincial and territorial planning for COVID-19 vaccination programs in Canada
• The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT): Supporting evidence-informed decision-making in public health in Canada

CCDR: Volume 47-4, April 2021: COVID-19: A Year Later

• Practical guidance for clinical laboratories for SARS-CoV-2 serology testing
• Simple mathematical modelling approaches to assessing the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 at gatherings
• Serum antibody response in COVID-19-recovered patients who retested positive
• Rapid disappearance of influenza following the implementation of COVID-19 mitigation measures in Hamilton, Ontario
• Suboptimal prenatal screening of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in a Montréal birthing and tertiary care centre: A retrospective cohort study
• COVID-19 outbreak in a personal service setting in Kingston, Ontario, 2020
• An outbreak of hepatitis C virus attributed to the use of multi-dose vials at a colonoscopy clinic, Waterloo Region, Ontario
• The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy in times of COVID-19: Building skills to "Build Back Better"
• Ethics check-up of public health immunization programs in Canada
• Protective immunity post-COVID-19 infection

CCDR: Volume 47-3, March 2021: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

• Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: Challenges and considerations
• Seasonality of coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses in Canada: Implications for COVID-19
• Canadian national COVID-19 genomics surveillance priorities for existing and emerging variants of concern
• Impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions on laboratory detections of influenza A and B in Canada
• Measles surveillance in Canada, 2019
• Knowledge brokering on infectious diseases for public health
• Designing tailored interventions to address barriers to vaccination
• How COVID-19 vaccines will be regulated for safety and effectiveness

CCDR: Volume 47-2, February 2021: HIV Testing in Canada in the Past Decade 2009–2019

• Familial cluster of asymptomatic COVID–19 cases in a First Nation community in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada
• The impact of publicly funded rotavirus immunization programs on Canadian children
• Understanding barriers and facilitators to HIV testing in Canada from 2009–2019: A systematic mixed studies review
• Does wearing a mask in public decrease the transmission of COVID-19?
• Information for authors

CCDR: Volume 47-1, January 2021: Foodborne and Animal Contact Disease Outbreaks

• National influenza mid-season report, 2020–2021
• COVID-19 outbreak among temporary foreign workers in British Columbia, March to May 2020
• Escherichia coli O121 outbreak associated with raw milk Gouda-like cheese in British Columbia, Canada, 2018
• Interim guidance on the use of the Abbott Panbio™ COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test
• The use of an online survey for collecting food exposure information, Foodbook sub-study, February to April 2015
• Country food consumption in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, Foodbook study 2014–2015
• Findings among Indigenous participants of the Tracks survey of people who inject drugs in Canada, Phase 4, 2017–2019
• Occupations at risk of contracting zoonoses of public health significance in Québec
• A qualitative program evaluation of the Publicly Available International Foodborne Outbreak Database
• A time-series analysis of testing and COVID-19 outbreaks in Canadian federal prisons to inform prevention and surveillance efforts
• HIV in Canada—surveillance report, 2019
• Managing pain and fear: Playing your CARDs to improve the vaccination experience
• How many people intend to get the COVID-19 vaccine?
• Thank you to the CCDR peer reviewers of 2020