The COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) is one of the Government of Canada's early efforts to track the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
[1] An external, dedicated secretariat was established in order to maximize the efficiency of the CITF's work.
[2] The CITF was to use a serology "to survey representative samples of the population for the presence of antibodies to the virus".
[3] Trudeau's press release on 23 April 2020, on the initiation of the CCITF listed several goals it would help to achieve notably that it would:[2] establish priorities and oversee the coordination of a series of country-wide blood test surveys that will tell us how widely the virus has spread in Canada and provide reliable estimates of potential immunity and vulnerabilities in Canadian populations.A Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group (VSRG) was also established within the CITF to monitor the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines made available in Canada.
[4] The CITF Board is composed of doctors, infectious disease experts, and policy makers.