Canadian experts say, It’s time for new tools to boost uptake of third doses, child vaccination

Canadian health something or other encourages us all to get a booster. pic.twitter.com/2Dn79a6Lsl

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TORONTO — Ontario is entering a sixth wave of COVID-19 with few remaining public health measures and experts say now is the time for a renewed vaccination strategy aimed at boosting third-dose uptake, shots for kids and preparing for wider fourth doses. 

When first and second doses became available, Ontario — and Canada at large — was the envy of the world in how quickly the population got vaccinated, said Dr. Fahad Razak, an internist and member of the province’s science advisory table. 

But while 91 per cent of Ontarians 12 and older have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, only about 60 per cent have received three. 

“A lot of the energy and the innovation that went into getting the first and second doses in, we haven’t been able to replicate that magic to the same extent for the third dose,” Razak said. 

“We have to make sure that the messaging about moving towards a period of less public health measures ? that does not mean that the risk to an individual or the risk to people over time has diminished if they still get infected.” 

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Vlad Tepes blog comments:

The article linked above is quite bizarre as it moves forward. It claims that 2 doses PLUS an infection gives you more immunity. This is unprecedented in medical history. 

Some experts though, like the one from Sam Dube’s panel in yesterday’s post, suggest that each of these seem more like a separate disease, almost as if each was made in a lab and released, rather than natural mutations of the legacy Covid19. 

Another possibility is that vaccinating everyone during a pandemic creates mutations which escape the vaxx protection. 

We are all super familiar with that one because of how often we are told to finish the prescription of antibiotics we get for a bacterial infection because if we stop it early when we “feel better”, we risk creating a bacteria that is immune to that particular antibiotic. 

This is classical evolutionary biology and remains true whatever the case is with Covid.