WATCH: Ontario’s top public health doctor shares details on the province’s plans to expand access to fourth COVID-19 shots. NEW from robertbenzie:
Moore said this current seventh wave could continue for another two weeks.
Ontario’s booster move comes more than two months after Quebec extended fourth shots to everyone 18 years and up. Quebec has fared far worse than Ontario — or any other province — since the pandemic hit Canada in March 2020. Ontario has suffered 13,527 COVID-19 deaths, but Quebec, with just 57 per cent of its population, has had 15,674 deaths — a staggering 2,147 more.Some scientists have concluded that antibodies from a previous Omicron infection last only three months, meaning people who contracted the virus during the January wave could be catching it again.
Second booster shots for the general population had been restricted to those over 60 — except for the immunocompromised, Indigenous people and their households, and those in congregant living settings — in part because Moore wanted more Ontarians to get their first boosters.In recent weeks, doctors and epidemiologists have been calling for more vaccinations because infections have been rising and COVID-19 cases are expected to spike again in the fall when people are spending more time indoors.
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