Posted: May 06, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 6
'Vaccines remain our single best way out of this hellscape,' said University of Ottawa epidemiologist Raywat Deonandan.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Louisa Taylor has spent months translating public health announcements and explaining the benefits of vaccination to immigrant communities in Ottawa.
Language barriers, lack of resources and vaccine hesitancy are just some of the issues she's trying to address during the COVID-19 pandemic.
So on May 3, when the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommended one set of vaccines over another, Taylor said she was alarmed.
"If the message we've been trying to give is the best vaccine is the first one you can get, this really flies in the face of that," said Taylor, director of Refugee 613, an organization that helps new Canadians get settled.