Freddy Centeno, left, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from health care worker Danielle Davis, right, at pop-up vaccination event at Reams in Magna on Monday, May 3, 2021. With COVID-19 cases surging in Utah, is it time for booster shots for the fully vaccinated?
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With COVID-19 cases surging in Utah, has the time come for the fully vaccinated to get booster shots?
Pfizer and its partner company in producing one of the three coronavirus vaccines approved for use in the United States, Bio-Tech, announced a new study Thursday showing promising results from administering a third shot, six months after the first two, and expect to submit their findings to federal authorities for authorization.
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Lambda is just one of a whole slew of variants the Public Health Agency of Canada is keeping an eye on, said Tam, and watching how much is it spreading and how it will respond to vaccines. We re just trying to gather up some information on who it is that s having the Lambda variant right now, but there s very few cases at this point, she said.
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, said there has been a pattern of panicking that vaccines won t work every time there is a new variant. It s like Oh no, new mutations, but actually Lamda doesn t really have new mutations, it just has new combinations of mutations that we ve already seen before, she said.
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Tam says 11 cases of the Lambda variant that was first identified in Peru last year have been reported to Health Canada to date. However, the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec said Thursday it has confirmed 27 cases already, all in March and April.
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Lambda is just one of a “whole slew” of variants the Public Health Agency of Canada is keeping an eye on, said Tam, and watching how much is it spreading and how it will respond to vaccines.
Published Thursday, July 8, 2021 2:50PM EDT Last Updated Thursday, July 8, 2021 2:50PM EDT OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the latest variant of interest in the COVID-19 pandemic has popped up in Canada in small numbers, but it s too early to know how widespread it is or what impact it could have. Tam says 11 cases of the
Lambda variant that was first identified in Peru last year have been reported to Health Canada to date. However, the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec said Thursday it has confirmed 27 cases already, all in March and April.
Lambda is just one of a “whole slew” of variants the Public Health Agency of Canada is keeping an eye on, said Tam, and watching how much is it spreading and how it will respond to vaccines.