Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 3)

So here’s how Omicron is hitting the vaccinated in Ontario :canada:


The ever sensible Dr. Peter Jüni, head of the Ontario Science Advisory Table, cautions

Jüni said [90% protection against hospitalization/ICU admission is] proof that the vaccines have been successful at achieving their primary goal, although he warned that the situation could change in the coming days and weeks because, up until now, most people who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 were infected with the previously dominant Delta variant.

Meanwhile, doctors in Manitoba have had enough, calling the governments measures “window dressing”. Both there and in Ontario, test positivity rates are solidly over 20% with a testing backlog of tens of thousands.

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