More investment needed to counter COVID-19 misinformation, Canada’s top doctor says
deaths and a massive increase in infections, Canada’s top doctor says more investments are needed to combat misinformation about vaccines and pandemic measures to ensure Canada is ready for possible new variants of concern.
Omicron and its hundreds of subvariants have taught the world that SARS-CoV-2 could be much more contagious than previously thought and that the virus is cunningly adept at evading immunity, Tam said. Communicating this ongoing uncertainty has been a challenge, Tam says, especially when Canadians are “fed up” with the pandemic.
But one of the other lessons learned has been that collective action among populations is key to reducing risk — actions like seeing as many people vaccinated and boosted as possible, Tam said. She pointed to the success Canada has seen in decreasing the number of mpox cases in the country over the last eight months since that virus first began to spread in Canada in May.How to get messaging right on masks, vaccines as ‘triple threat’ of viruses swirl
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