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Given that more adults in their 20s to 50s are becoming critically ill, “perhaps we need to have larger eligible age-bands so we aren’t always scrambling to find people to get their shot,” said Timothy Chan, a University of Toronto…

“If we want to get it done by Sept. 1, then we need up to about 115,000 doses a day,” Dr. Timothy Chan, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto and CHE Director, told the…

If just 79 per cent of Canadians wanted the COVID-19 vaccine, Timothy Chan, Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health and CHE Director, said the number of doses needed per day would drop to roughly 280,000. Chan…

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and our lives changed dramatically as we moved to remote work and online classes. Governments declared lockdowns and mandated masks, and the virus continued to spread despite our…

“A little bit of new infrastructure can go a long way,” said Timothy Chan, a U of T professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and CHE affiliate, who co-authored the study. “The bike lanes that were put in during the…

Speaker: Dionne Aleman, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm Location: Virtual – join us on Zoom! A Fast and Granular Agent-Based Simulation Model of COVID-19  Abstract: Most COVID-19 projections are based on compartmental models, which require only…

However, Timothy Chan, Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health and CHE affiliate, is not concerned. “If they are blocking only a small number of vaccines or only to specific countries, I think the impact on Canada…

Timothy Chan, CHE Director, talks about the logistics on vaccine rollout as more Canadians wait for their doses. Interview on: CTV News

Timothy C. Y. Chan, PhD, a professor of industrial engineering and CHE Director at the University of Toronto and the Canada research chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health, tells Verywell that a single dose of mRNA vaccines is…

In an “ideal world,” said Tim Chan, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto, there would be a “central source of information” for these bookings with “very co-ordinated messaging” even if it differs…