A group has been putting together a lawsuit against the province, arguing that restricting second boosters is discriminatory under the Charter.
wave, driven by the BA.5 variant, there are fierce calls to expand access to fourth doses of vaccine.
But despite Canada’s expert body on vaccines recently opening the door to a wider rollout, not everyone sees an urgent need to open up second boosters to all adults, while some point out the millions of Ontarians who still have not received their third shots. “There’s plenty of COVID in the community; we’re not talking about it so much in the news, but it is absolutely a risk for all of us who have to work face to face with other people, or who have to just live,” says Ottawa family doctor Nili Kaplan-Myrth.
Kaplan-Myrth and other health-care workers have been putting together a lawsuit against the province, arguing that restricting second boosters is discriminatory under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Kaplan-Myrth has also already started preregistering people for a vaccine clinic later this month, hoping they will be eligible by then.
to people over 60, those in long-term care, retirement homes and other group living settings, as well as First Nation, Inuit and Métis individuals and members of their households, and some immunocompromised people.
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