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More and more Canadians are getting their second dose of COVID vaccine. So what's safe for you to do if you're heading into a two-dose summer? Can you travel? Hug your grandkids? Go to restaurants? Infectious diseases specialist Lynora Saxinger has the answers for what life can look like if you're fully vaccinated.
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05/19/2021 10:00 AM EDT
Welcome to Corridors. We’ve been sharing this space with contributors as obsessed as we are with policy and Canadian politics. Today’s guest host is Sean Speer, editor at large at The Hub (thehub.ca), a new digital media platform focused on Canadian policy and governance. He is also the PPF Scotiabank Fellow at the Public Policy Forum and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Sean previously served as a senior economic adviser to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Over to you, Sean.
The NACI problem and how to fix it
The volunteer panel is dispensing crucial vaccine advice meant to keep Canadians safe and healthy. But NACI desperately needs to do better on the national stage.
May 17, 2021 People wearing face masks line up to enter a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Toronto on May 5, 2021. (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)
Monika Naus once spent an entire summer vacation reading through a final draft of the Canadian Immunization Guide. Back then, Naus was chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), a panel of doctors and scientists that offers recommendations on vaccine usage to a constellation of health-care providers across Canada. Naus’s workload could be daunting, in part because the committee had little administrative support. Still, she volunteered her time for more than a decade and chaired NACI from 2003 to 2007.
These people were vaccine hesitant. Here s why they changed their minds
Vaccine hesitancy is decreasing across Canada, according to two new studies and those who work on the issue. Health experts have said the focus must turn to addressing hesitancy and those who have fallen through the cracks. CBC News spoke with people who changed their minds about what worked for them.
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