Those remaining health care workers may still book a shot down the road, but will they be forced to? Probably not. “We’re not making the vaccine mandatory for anybody, including health care workers,” Strang said at the start of May. Françoise Baylis, a health ethicist based at Dalhousie University, says at this point, Strang’s decision is valid. “It would be premature to introduce something and then have to flip flop or change it or amend it, as the science keeps changing or amending. Right now, the position being taken is one that s actually quite defensible and reasonable,” she tells The Coast in a phone call. “It doesn t mean it s off the table. It means now s not the time to be focused on that at all.”
Published Tuesday, May 11, 2021 1:15PM EDT Heather Costley was thrilled to hear her 12-year-old son would soon be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, giving the Nova Scotia mother hope that a return to normalcy isn t as far off as she initially believed. While Costley doesn t expect Koen s life to change drastically once he s vaccinated, she says it will open the door to socializing with his classmates, and bring the family a step closer to rebooking a trip to Disney World they had to cancel last year. He was like: Yay, great. I can hang out with my friends again, Costley said of her son s reaction to news last week that Health Canada had authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech jab for children 12- to 15-years-old.
On this week’s show: Health Minister Patty Hajdu weighs in on the current state of the pandemic and the prospect of vaccine passports. Former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour discusses her role in a new independent review into sexual misconduct in the military. Plus a special report on the 2011 election, 10 years later; a debate over whether Canada should issue vaccine passports; and an interview with incoming High Commissioner to the U.K. Ralph Goodale.
Nearly 25,000 people in Canada have died from COVID-19 and more than one million people have been infected by the virus, but experts say people have lost sight of what those numbers mean: Canadian lives. With each COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and death, multiple Canadians are impacted by a wave of worry, distress and grief. But for many of those who havenât been directly impacted by the illness, keeping up with daily case counts becomes just a blip in otherwise data-filled days. âWe can t live constantly feeling that we re in the midst of a tragedy, a catastrophe, so we block it out,â Vardit Ravitsky, professor of bioethics at the University of Montreal and chair of the COVID-19 Impact Committee of the Trudeau Foundation, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview on Thursday.
COVID-19 vaccine passports could be abused in Manitoba, legal experts warn
Legal experts warn Manitoba must ensure COVID-19 immunization cards won t be used to discriminate against people in the workplace, at gathering places or anywhere else within the province when the wallet-sized documents are made available this spring.
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