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Itâs unclear when more Oxford-AstraZeneca shots will arrive but Ontario is expecting millions of Pfizer-BioNTech shots in the coming weeks.
Biologist and science communicator Samantha Yammine says some Canadians who have already received the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot may be comforted to know they have the option of a different dose.
She says the pandemic has given rise to an âinfodemic,â with a flood of advice about areas like the low risk of blood clots from viral-vector shots compared with mRNA vaccines.
Even with more mRNA vaccines on the way, Yammine says Canada should be careful about dismissing shots like Oxford-AstraZenecaâs because they are important to ending the global pandemic.
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Quebec nationalists have finally achieved their dream “separation” from the rest of Canada.
With our borders sealed off from Ontario and New Brunswick, you can’t enter Quebec from Canada anymore. We’re separated!
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Our COVID rules have proved separate from Canada’s too, for better and worse. Nothing reveals this like the recent differences between us and the other distinct province Alberta.
That province has practically been partying all year compared with Quebec with long-open restaurants, gyms and gatherings of 10 people permitted indoors, until recently.