One day in Ottawa and a catastrophe of vaccine messaging
Shannon Proudfoot: From a television appearance by NACI s chair to a confounding response by the health minister, confidence in COVID vaccines took a beating Hajdu rises during Question Period in the House of Commons Dec. 10, 2020 (CP/Justin Tang)
Monday was an absolutely hideous day if what you wanted was clear, useful, confidence-boosting communication about COVID-19 vaccines in Canada. If you wanted…the horrible opposite of that, then it was a good outing.
First up was the National Advisory Council on Immunization (NACI), whose press conferences must increasingly be viewed like incoming meteorites by public health agencies who have to figure out how to educate and reassure a jumpy public after each one.