On the Government of Canada’s website there is a digital tally counter, showing the daily uptick in coronavirus cases and, sadly, the steadily rising death toll.

Such grim counts are replicated worldwide, logging the rise and spread of a global crisis the like of which has not been seen in 100 years.

More than 12,000 kilometres away another clock ticks, quietly, but expectantly toward, we hope, a moment of light in public health amidst otherwise dark and anxious times.

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