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Across Canada, parents are facing a decisive moment in the pandemic: whether or not to have their children vaccinated.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has chosen to keep schools shut for the remainder of the academic year, warning Wednesday that returning kids to in-class learning before they are vaccinated could lead to “thousands” of new cases of COVID-19.
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Many infectious disease specialists say an end to school closures and the path back to normalcy, even sanity, hinges on having children vaccinated. High vaccination rates will drive down the virus, protecting everyone. In Canada, the Pfizer-BioNtech mRNA shot was approved last month for children down to age 12. Canada is home to approximately 1.63 million 12- to 15-year-olds.