Image Courtesy: Marco Verch/Flickr IF the booster becomes available to those 50+ in Ontario… THEN we still won’t know if it can work on the Omicron variant… BECAUSE it’s still new. The Omicron variant, first discovered in Africa, is starting to spread across the world, but only time will tell if boosters will work.
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Vaccine Effectiveness Against the Unknown
Image Courtesy: Marco Verch/Flickr IF the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the only one that offers “strong protection” against the Omicron variant… THEN Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson have to step their game up… BECAUSE omicron has started spreading even with travel bans in place. If there is no substantial protection from multiple manufacturers, omicron willContinue reading “Vaccine Effectiveness Against the Unknown”
Omicron Concerns
Image Courtesy: Pexels IF Canadian cases of the Omicron variant are yet to be confirmed… THEN it will only get worse when more people test positive… BECAUSE lots of people are either stuck in South Africa or are in quarantine. Four cases were already confirmed in Ontario with one confirmed in Quebec, and more peopleContinue reading “Omicron Concerns”
Here We Go Again
Image Courtesy: Pexels IF the latest variant of concern, Omicron, reaches Canada… THEN we’ll be going back into lockdown… BECAUSE that’s what happened when other variants wreaked havoc. While vaccinations rates are high in Canada, they are not high in Africa, which is where the variant was first detected. Travel restrictions have been initiated, butContinue reading “Here We Go Again”