COVID-19 Resources for Patients and Families

Your questions about COVID-19 vaccines and transplant answered in this video by Dr. Deepali Kumar, Transplant Infectious Diseases Specialist, Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN.

Information on COVID-19 for transplant patients. Can transplant patients receive the COVID-19 vaccine? When the vaccine will be available and what are the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine?

How the vaccines work, vaccine safety, and information for people with pancreatic cancer.

Information for people with cancer and their families on how COVID-19 vaccines work, vaccine safety, possible side effects and common questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.

The risks and benefits of getting the COVID-19 vaccines for people with cancer and cancer survivors.

Diabetes Canada encourages people living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it is accessible, in consultation with your health care provider. Read more about this and the vaccine side effects.

Why COVID vaccines are needed, the safety and development of vaccines, and what are the differences between types of vaccines.

People living with liver disease are strongly encouraged to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Here is the information about COVID-19 vaccines they need to know.

Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccines and antithrombotic medications, recordings of the webinars on Thrombosis & COVID-19.

People with MS should consider getting COVID-19 vaccine as soon as the vaccine is available to them.

Information about the novel coronavirus, including possible treatments, vaccines and how it affects people taking arthritis medications.

Recommendations by Canadian Rheumatology Association regarding the COVID-19 vaccine for patients under the care of a rheumatologists.

People with lupus may be at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19. For this reason, current recommendations are for adults with lupus to be immunized against COVID-19 when it becomes available.

Information on COVID-19 vaccines that patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease should know.

The two available COVID-19 Vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) have NOT been tested in pregnant or breast feeding women. Information on the benefits, risk of COVID-19 vaccines, and what do experts recommend to pregnant and breast feeding women.

The official statement on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy by Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC).

Canadian guidance has recommended that the vaccine against COVID-19 should not be offered to individuals
who are pregnant or breastfeeding until further evidence is available; however, it is ethically justified to offer individuals
who are pregnant, trying to conceive or breastfeeding the option to receive the vaccine.