VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As countries around the world slowly begin to reduce social distancing restrictions, the need for a vaccine against the COVID-19 disease becomes increasingly urgent. One Canadian Catholic archbishop has decided to make a financial contribution to a lab that is working to find a preventive cure.
“This is a time when listening to health officials and medical experts is our Christian responsibility to care for the common good,” Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, Canada, told the news outlet of his diocese in an article published April 27.
“May the search for COVID-19 solutions also be a moment of solidarity, of collaboration, and of growing together as a visible sign to the world of the healing and reconciliation so needed right now,” he said.
Miller has chosen to financially support a research facility looking for a coronavirus vaccine, led by the immunologist Wilfred Jefferies at the Michael Smith Laboratories of the University of British Columbia.
Jefferies has almost 30 years of experience in vaccines and previously worked on bettering the efficacy of vaccines against other diseases, such as Influenzas and Smallpox. He was also part of the scientific team that addressed CoV-SARS from 2002 to 2004.
In February, his laboratory began working to create a vaccine to fend off the coronavirus pandemic.
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