As Quebec prepares to launch a provincewide COVID\u002D19 vaccination campaign, it\u0027s unclear whether it will be enough to ward off a potential new fall wave.
As of Wednesday, only 56 per cent of Quebecers aged five and older had received a third vaccine dose — a number that has hardly budged in months. Government officials have said that the low booster uptake is due to the fact that millions of Quebecers have caught the novel coronavirus and consider themselves adequately protected.
If there had been a “consistent and clear” advisory on boosters, “more people would have been protected and all the consequences of the infection over the last few months would have been avoided,” he said in an interview. That’s something that isn’t always easy when people are on “different timelines” because they’ve become eligible for boosters at different stages of the pandemic, they said. There are also differences between how provinces communicate on COVID-19, and even on who is eligible for boosters.
Caroline Quach-Thanh, a microbiologist and the president of Quebec’s immunization committee, told the same news conference there was a chance that new vaccines under development will provide longer immunity. The current offerings provide good protection, “but in terms of durability, the long-term response isn’t there,” she said.Article content
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