Ontario reports 513 new Covid Cases… and Trudeau’s Passport is in your future

Ontario reports 513 new COVID-19 cases; highest single-day tally in 2 months

Ontario is reporting 513 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, surpassing 500 daily infections for the first time since mid-June.

Thursday’s case count marks a significant day-over-day rise from Wednesday when 324 infections were logged, and is more than two times the 213 cases reported a week ago.


Ottawa promises vaccine passport for international travel this fall

The federal government says it plans to create proof-of-vaccination documentation for international travel by early fall.

Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said this afternoon that Ottawa is working with the provinces — which hold the data on vaccinations — to develop consistent credentials. The minister said the government is also working with other countries to recognize the credentials issued in Canada.

The federal certification would include data on the type of vaccines received, dates and location.

 

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Three Charts The Delta Variant Scaremongers Don’t Want You To See

While the sharp rise in Delta-variant COVID cases has sparked a renewed push for mask mandates, lockdowns, and vaccine “passports,” there’s been little attention paid to just how dangerous this variant is. Perhaps that’s because the evidence suggests it is far less of a public health concern than previous outbreaks.

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New data on coronavirus vaccine effectiveness may be “a wakeup call”

A new preprint study that raises concerns about the mRNA vaccines’ effectiveness against Delta — particularly Pfizer’s — has already grabbed the attention of top Biden administration officials.

What they’re saying: The study found the Pfizer vaccine was only 42% effective against infection in July, when the Delta variant was dominant. “If that’s not a wakeup call, I don’t know what is,” a senior Biden official told Axios.

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Covid isn’t the end – History shows this is not how civilisations collapse

The world is always coming to an end, for someone. “Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break,” as Lord Tennyson elegantly put it. People die every day, from illnesses and accidents. Ambulances and fire engines are forever on their way to some life-shattering emergency; the police are eternally ringing someone’s doorbell to give bad news. The news websites’ pandemic death toll tickers have made it impossible to forget, but the fact is not new.

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Still Unsure About Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine? Start Here.

In the early days of the pandemic, there was a real sense of camaraderie. We were all in this together. We stood on our balconies and stoops and leaned out windows to clap for front-line workers. We stayed home to keep each other safe. Now, that altruistic mentality has reverted to the all-too-familiar mean of tribalism. It can feel like the battle lines have been drawn: on one side, those who have been vaccinated, and on the other, those who haven’t.

But things are never that black and white. Even among those who have been vaccinated, many people still have concerns and questions about the vaccine. And among those who haven’t, their reasons for not getting the jab vary from concerns over potential side effects, to a fear of needles, to simply not being able to take time off work. The roughly 30 percent of eligible Americans who have yet to be vaccinated are not all anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists, and treating them as such could make them even less likely to get the shot.

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Twitter Nazis

Maxime Bernier and I follow each other, but I’m not allowed to like this tweet.

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COVID-19 vaccine endorsed for pregnant women

In the past three weeks the American Congress of Obstetricians and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine have endorsed the vaccine for expectant mothers.

“This is an important recommendation since we now know that contracting COVID-19 during pregnancy increases the risk of severe life-threatening complications to both the mother and fetus. This is really compelling support for getting vaccinated if you are unvaccinated and pregnant,’’ said Dr. Richard Leach, the chair of Women’s Health Services for Henry Ford Health System.

h/t Mauser98

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Chinese media caught publishing fake news claims by non-existent Swiss scientist critical of US for politicizing Covid origins

Wilson Edwards – Scientist

Chinese state media articles quoting a Swiss biologist accusing the US of politicising Covid origin investigations have been quietly deleted, after the Swiss government said no such person exists.

On 24 July, a Facebook post by an account named Wilson Edwards claimed to have witnessed or learned of US efforts to politicise the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 investigations from within.

Edwards cited unnamed WHO sources and “fellow researchers” complaining of having endured “enormous pressure and even intimidation from the US side as well as certain media outlets”.

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Ontario reports 324 new Covid cases … and welcome to the 4th wave says Doc

Ontario reports 324 new Covid cases … and welcome to the 4th wave says Doc

Ontario reports more than 300 new COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case count continues to hover between 300 and 400 new infections per day and infectious diseases experts are cautioning that a surge in cases is expected in the coming weeks.

Provincial health officials recorded 324 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, on par with the 321 new cases confirmed on Tuesday but up substantially from the 139 infections reported just one week ago.


‘No doubt’ Canada now in 4th wave of COVID-19 as cases spike across much of the country

With COVID-19 cases rising in multiple provinces after a summer lull, more signs point to Canada entering an expected fourth wave of the pandemic — one which could be dramatically different from earlier surges, thanks to rising vaccination rates, but not entirely pain-free.

The country’s seven-day average for new daily cases is now close to 1,300 — an increase of nearly 60 per cent over the previous week, with cases ticking back up mainly in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec.

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Calgary chamber asking province to create COVID-19 vaccine passport system

Speaking on Tuesday on the Calgary Eyeopener, chamber president and CEO Deborah Yedlin said businesses have voiced concerns surrounding their ability to stay open amid the province’s lifting of restrictions.

“Our members have told us that a vaccine certificate passport is a very good idea, and it’s really, really critical to be able to continue to open successfully and consistently,” Yedlin said.

“If we’re not going to be testing, tracing and isolating, we need another mechanism to keep everyone safe.”

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CDC Director Just Killed The Rationale For Vaccine Passports, Admits Vaccines Don’t Prevent People From Catching COVID Or From Spreading COVID

Dr. Rochelle Walensky has been making the media rounds. During her most recent appearance on CNN, The Conservative Treehouse caught her making a startling admission: The vaccines neither prevent people from catching COVID nor from spreading COVID. At most, they simply reduce the severity of the symptoms people experience if they do catch COVID. From this statement, Sundance draws the logical conclusion: Why should people get vaccine passports if they are both as contagious and as vulnerable to contagion as their unvaccinated cohorts?

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