Millions Locked Down Again as Canada Rues Vaccine Failure

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Back in December, before the COVID-19 variants changed the course of the pandemic, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau bragged that he had procured enough potential vaccines to protect a population four times the size of Canada. But four months later, not even two percent of Canada’s population of just under 38 million is fully vaccinated and large swaths of the country are going back into lockdown thanks to a brutal third wave.

Canada has logged nearly one million cases and 23,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Trudeau had hoped to get the population vaccinated by June but now says all Canadians who want a vaccine will get one by the end of September. Canada is one of the only large economies in the world that did not attempt to manufacture its own coronavirus vaccine. Meanwhile, the variants are taking hold.

On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, launched a stark warning that even fully vaccinated Americans should avoid travel to Canada. And if they do go for essential purposes, they should be tested three to five days upon return. “This isn’t the news any of us wanted, but hospitalizations are surging, ICU beds are filling up, variants are spreading and even people who had convinced themselves they didn’t need to be concerned are getting sick,” Trudeau said at a news conference Tuesday. “Even if the sun is shining and the weather is getting warmer, COVID-19 isn’t done with us yet,” he said, calling the third wave of the pandemic “very serious.”

More troubling still is that most of the new cases being seen in the hospital’s intensive care units are increasingly younger patients, according to Canada’s top health expert. “While COVID-19 continues to impact people of all ages in Canada, infection rates are highest among those aged 20 to 39 years of age,” Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, said in a statement Wednesday. “As well, we are seeing an increased number of adults, under the age of 60 years being treated for COVID-19 in hospital, including in intensive care units.”

https://news.yahoo.com/millions-locked-down-again-canada-124453116.html

[Bev54]

1. Firstly the conservatives closed our lab facilities, (not the liberals)

that could have manufactured the vaccines, so our government was reliant on other countries. Trudeau procured vaccines but then other governments forced some companies to provide vaccines to their own countries first. Yes the full vaccination rate is 2.38% but the number with at least first shot is 27%. We are just getting our vaccine as expected. The government is on track to meet their original estimation of all vaccinations by Sept, although they are hoping to do that sooner. The vaccinations in many provinces have now opened for all adults, now that more vaccine has been shipped. The younger patients is because of the variants that is affecting the young. While it is all very concerning, to lay this at the liberal government's feet is disingenuous at best.

[appalachiablue]

2. Disappointing and more. Thanks for posting