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Collected Item: “Thank You Canadian Researchers”

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Thank You Canadian Researchers

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screenshot of a Tweet

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

People were anxious to find out whether or not their jobs would be classified as essential in response to the Coronavirus shutdown. One group who is instrumental in the race to find a cure are scientists and researchers working tirelessly to produce a vaccine. The Western Economic Division of the Canadian government wanted to say thank you to a team of those researchers.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#thankyou, #healthcare, #essentialworkers, #research, #vaccine

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Twitter user @WD_Canada created the tweet, VIDO-InterVac/University of Saskatchewan provided the photo, Joey Dorion took the screenshot

Give this story a date.

2020-06-11
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