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British Columbia COVID - 19 Immunization Plan & Registration:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/covid-19-provincial-support/vaccines#register

Rod: Wasn't sure where to put this, but thought there were probably a few that might be interested.

Cheers,
Nog

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Canada clears Johnson & Johnson vaccine, first to approve 4

"Canada is getting a fourth vaccine to prevent COVID-19 as the country's health regulator has cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two, officials said Friday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada has an agreement with Johnson & Johnson for 10 million doses between now and September. It was not immediately clear when Canada would get its first shipment."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ap-source-canada-clears-johnson-johnson-vaccine-76276510

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Trudeau Liberals gaming the relief rollout for votes?

So giving Trudeau plaudits on relief because of a StatsCan report showing the government was gaming the system is a bit of a reach.

But that’s what happened.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/bonokoski-trudeau-liberals-gaming-the-relief-rollout-for-votes

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PMO scrambled to contain controversy over pandemic early-warning system, internal e-mails show

Internal e-mails show the Prime Minister’s Office was scrambling last summer to contain the fallout over the silencing of Canada’s pandemic early-warning system after learning it was curtailed less than a year before COVID-19 struck.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-pmo-scrambled-to-contain-controversy-over-pandemic-early-warning/

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The following article explains how we got to where we are. Not every detail involved with this is included, but many are:

The complacent country: How Canadian public health allowed itself to be steamrolled by COVID-19

"COVID-19 had already killed 3,000 people in 60 countries when Canadian officialdom was universally chiding people not to 'overreact'"

“We lost the ‘hard bastards’ who are the people who need to lead in times of pandemics,” said Amir Attaran, a public health researcher at the University of Ottawa. “We instead gained the world of gentle social scientists, and they are just constitutionally unfit for some of the decisions required in a crisis.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-complacent-country-how-canadian-public-health-allowed-itself-to-be-steamrolled-by-covid-19

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COVID-19: Those with weakened immune systems may reveal the secrets to the variant mystery

“One of the mutations we found led us to discover the B.1.1.7 variant because this mutation in our patient that had emerged in response to treatment actually was one of the key mutations found in the B.1.1.7,” Gupta said.

“We were the first to actually show that in vitro, these mutations actually had a functional impact. And therefore, this was a sign that the virus was not only evolving, but actually doing things to overcome treatments that we were throwing at the virus.”

Unfortunately, both patients in the U.K. and Boston passed away.

But they did provide key insight into the need to control community spread, to protect those most vulnerable and to ramp up vaccinations."

https://globalnews.ca/news/7692307/covid-19-variants-origin/

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Turns out as many of us believed, the liberal leader been lying about vaccines the entire time.

Take a long hard look at the messengers here:

Trudeau's blaming of Mulroney on vaccine problems delusional, say experts

"For months now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blamed everyone for Canada’s trickle of COVID-19 vaccines but himself.

Trudeau and his ministers have gone so far as to blame former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney — who was prime minister from 1984 to 1993 — for the privatization, or “the selling off“, of Connaught Laboratories. What he fails to mention is that Connaught Labs didn’t go anywhere. It’s now part of Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines. The Connaught Campus in Toronto accounts for one-fifth of the company’s global vaccine sales.

Paul Lucas, who was president and CEO of GlaxoSmithKline Canada from 1994 to 2012, started speaking out and wrote an opinion piece in the Financial Post after he heard federal Liberal Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc being interviewed on CTV’s Power Play with Evan Solomon, saying that GlaxoSmithKline had closed its manufacturing facility for vaccines during Harper’s Conservative government, which is false.

“This facility didn’t close, it’s still producing most of the flu vaccine for Canada on an annual basis,” Lucas said during a recent telephone interview.

“I’ve been very concerned and frankly upset about the lies that are coming from the federal government about this whole (COVID vaccine) file,” says Lucas, who was integral to the production and distribution of the Canadian vaccine for the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. All of the vaccine for that outbreak was produced in the GSK factory in Quebec City.

“Trudeau has badly botched Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement,” states Lucas.

“First, he blamed Harper for his own failings. Then he blamed Mulroney and then he blamed the provinces. Then he actually turned on his own vaccine task force. He blamed them for about a day or two. Then he blamed the companies — Pfizer for delaying the delivery of its vaccines in January,” explains Lucas."

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-15

There is a LOT more, including insights into the CanSino "deal", the foot dragging of Trudeau to get in line for Pfizer etc, and the newly Liberal proposed amendments to PMPRB’s Patented Medicines Regulation noted as "putting Canadians at a huge disadvantage for gaining access to the most innovative drugs that are out there,"

Truly worth the read, even for those who will choose to filter out the information so they don't have to accept it.

Nog

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Always had reservations about Canada moving the vaccine goalposts...

Moving second vaccine dose back months an experiment on Canadian lives

"A population-level experiment.

That’s a quote. It’s what Canada’s top scientist called the Trudeau government’s decision to move your second vaccine dose back by months.

“It amounts right now to a basically population-level experiment,” said Mona Nemer, CM CQ FRSC, whose formal title is Chief Science Advisor to the Government of Canada.

She was picked for the role by Justin Trudeau himself.

And Nemer says pushing back the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines is an “experiment.” On you."

https://ottawasun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-moving-second-vaccine-back-months-is-an-experiment-on-us

Hmmmmmm.....

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Slow Canada: Here’s How Badly We Muffed the Pandemic

The auditor general lays out six ways our Public Health Agency failed its mandate.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/03/26/Slow-Canada-Muffed-Pandemic/

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Suspend AstraZeneca use for people under 55, vaccine committee recommends

Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is recommending provinces pause the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on those under the age of 55 because of safety concerns — guidance most provinces said today that they would follow.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/astrazeneca-under-55-1.5968128

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After that devastating auditor general's report, why does Tam still have a job?

The unwritten conclusion of that scathing auditor general's report into how the Public Health Agency botched early pandemic detection is obvious: Replace Dr. Theresa Tam.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-martin-after-that-devastating-auditor-general-s-report-why-does-tam-still-have-a-job-1.5366995

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Pfizer-BioNTech Shot Stops Covid Spread, Israeli Study Shows

The Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE Covid-19 vaccine appeared to stop the vast majority of recipients in Israel becoming infected, providing the first real-world indication that the immunization will curb transmission of the coronavirus.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-21/pfizer-biontech-shot-stops-covid-s-spread-israeli-study-shows

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Health Canada issues advisory for face masks containing graphene

Health Canada has issued an advisory and asked distributors to recall masks sold with graphene or biographene in them over potential inhalation risks.

Graphene is comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms and is considered a nanomaterial, meaning it is made of tiny particles, and is reported to have “antiviral and antibacterial properties,” the advisory says.

The products affected are listed as “face masks labelled as containing graphene or biomass graphene,” the advisory states. Health Canada recommends that Canadians not use masks with the substance and to consult their health-care provider if they have used graphene face masks and have health concerns - such as new or unexplained shortness of breath, discomfort or difficulty breathing.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-canada-issues-advisory-for-face-masks-containing-graphene-1.5372822

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As COVID-19 variants spread in B.C., concern grows for effects on younger adults

Doctors in British Columbia are sounding the alarm about the effect new COVID-19 variants are having on younger people.

Evidence suggests the variants of concern are not only more contagious, but are also leading to more severe hospitalizations — particularly for younger adults.

“With the initial COVID the feeling was very much that while young people may get COVID they may not get all that sick, I think the variants have changed that … and I don’t know if people are realizing that,” Dr. Gerald Da Roza, head of medicine at Royal Columbian Hospital, told Global News.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7738403/covid-19-bc-variants-young-adults/