The book makes it clear that tropical medicine – and subsequent versions of medicine - emerged not with a healing mindset, but because those in power wanted to know how disease would impact their colonizing plans – and later, economic plans.
Epidemiologist Prativa Baral encourages people not to wait for Moderna's new bivalent vaccine, saying the best vaccine is the vaccine that is available to you.
Public health director Dr. Luc Boileau says while new Omicron subvariants are driving the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Quebec, it's too early to consider bringing back public health restrictions.