Loyal Liberals stood on line this week to dispute renegade MP Joël Lightbound’s allegation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had “politicized” the pandemic for electoral gain.
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“I believe that after the Omicron wave has subsided, the risk of our system becoming overwhelmed will become substantially reduced and this will enable us to shift our response,” Henry’s counterpart in Alberta, Dr.
“The vaccine isn’t providing significant benefit at two doses against the risk of transmission, as compared to someone unvaccinated,” he said last week.
I have long argued that the countries whose performances we can and should measure ourselves against are Norway and Finland: prosperous, non-island nations that cannot reasonably cut themselves off from essential travel.
The last time Canada reported overall excess mortality, in October, there were 456 extra deaths per million from the beginning of the pandemic.
Notably, according to Oxford University’s COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, Norway required all schools to be closed for just 46 days.
Vaccinated tourists can now visit without so much as a rapid test, never mind a PCR.
“Society, in a short time, can return to normal everyday life without special infection control measures against COVID-19,” Dr.
It, too, is reopening on a deliberate and quick timetable — with an eye to all-but-total freedom by March 1, including the abandonment of vaccine passports.
Taiwan is one of few countries that hasn’t explicitly abandoned the “COVID-zero” strategy — but its approach to Omicron has been far softer than for previous variants.
“What we need to do going forward, as we emerge out of this Omicron wave, is recognize this virus is not going to disappear,” Canada’s chief public health officer Dr.
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