To cover more ground with limited vaccines, and to save more lives, she endorsed a policy of delaying the second dose by four months. (Three of the four vaccines currently approved in Canada are based on two-dose regimens between 21 and 28 days.)
A couple of days later the National Advisory Committee on Immunization strongly recommended that the rest of the country follow suit. Surprisingly, they did.
As researchers at B.C.’s Royal Columbian Hospital later put it: “While there are no large clinical trial published data to guide prolonged delays of the second dose, there are data to suggest that delaying the second dose likely preserves the long-term boost in immunity without an unacceptable decrease in immunity in the intervening period between doses.”
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(Bloomberg) When British Columbia shut down the ski resort of Whistler in late March to contain a Covid-19 outbreak, a flood of alarming headlines circulated, warning that the highly contagious Brazil variant was running amok in Canada.
This week, the province’s top doctor pushed back: the number of P.1 cases the more contagious variant that emerged in the Amazonian city of Manaus is high because British Columbia is testing more for the strain than most parts of the world.
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The guinea pigs have weighed in and none is too happy that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using them as a âhuman experimentâ in order to save political face on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
My Sunday column on the Trudeau Liberalsâ skipping the manufacturersâ recommendation to give second dose after 21 days, not Trudeauâs four months, certainly rattled the hornetâs nest.
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âIt amounts right now to a basically human-population experiment,â admitted Mona Nemer, the Trudeau-appointed Chief Science Advisor to the Government of Canada.
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Evidence is mounting fast that Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is playing Crazy 8s with a euchre deck and using millions of Canadians as guinea pigs by moving the second COVID-19 vaccine back by four months.
The primary manufacturers of the vaccines â Pfizer and Moderna â say 21-to-28-days is the maximum wait, not a full third of a year.
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But Trudeau, described by veteran CBC journalist Neil MacDonald as being âcynical, patronizing, condescending, arrogant, and insulting,â is tossing caution to the wind to get as many first jabs in as possible and then see who remain breathing without the assistance of a ventilator.
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The guinea pigs have weighed in and none is too happy that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using them as a âhuman experimentâ in order to save political face on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
My Sunday column on the Trudeau Liberalsâ skipping the manufacturersâ recommendation to give second dose after 21 days, not Trudeauâs four months, certainly rattled the hornetâs nest.
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Try refreshing your browser, or BONOKOSKI: Justin Trudeauâs guinea pigs respond not so kindly Back to video
âIt amounts right now to a basically human-population experiment,â admitted Mona Nemer, the Trudeau-appointed Chief Science Advisor to the Government of Canada.