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Ontario reports record 4,456 new Covid cases … and OH OH! … South Africa variant maybe sorta “slips through Pfizer vaccine”

Ontario reports record 4,456 new Covid cases … and OH OH! … South Africa variant maybe sorta “slips through Pfizer vaccine”

10:00 a.m.: Ontario is reporting a record 4,456 COVID-19 cases Sunday, with 21 deaths. The seven-day avg is up to a record 3,573 cases daily or 172 weekly per 100,000, and up to 16.0 deaths/day.

Labs report 56,378 completed tests and 7.7% positive, the most for a Sunday since 2020.

South African variant can ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine: Israeli study

JERUSALEM — The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer reviewed.

It appears that the AstraZeneca jab has a much lower efficacy rate than either Moderna, Janssen or Pfizer. But guess which one Canada seems to have the most of for the GTA? Yup AstraZeneca.

Thank that schmuck in Ottawa for subjecting you to Vaccine Roulette. And given we now live in Bananada I wonder who is getting the highest efficacy vaccines if indeed their ratings are reliable?

Official: Chinese vaccines’ effectiveness low

The effectiveness of a Sinovac vaccine at preventing symptomatic infections was found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil, near the 50% threshold at which health experts say a vaccine is useful. By comparison, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been found to be 97% effective.

Related… Comparison of Vaccine efficacy of approved jabs in Canada –

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have the highest efficacy at around 95 per cent. Lower efficacy, in the 60 to 70 per cent range, was found for the AstraZeneca and Janssen products. (Efficacy measures how many vaccinated people contract COVID-19 compared with how many infections occur in the placebo or control group. Put another way, it represents the proportion of COVID-19 infections that could be prevented by vaccination).

… “I think the Johnson and Johnson (Janssen) one had much better clinical endpoints in the trials … there was a pretty low bar for establishing efficacy in the other trials,” she says.

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Trudeau slams ‘disconnected’ Conservatives in sharply worded speech to party faithful

In a 20-minute virtual address to thousands of party members, Trudeau said Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole “can’t quite grasp” the struggles that Canadians have endured over the last year during COVID-19. He suggested the Tories would have been less generous with relief programs and unreliable pandemic stewards had they been in power.

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Canada’s COVID-19 case rate tops U.S. as country continues to lag in vaccinations

Canada’s COVID-19 case rate tops U.S. as country continues to lag in vaccinations

For the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began, Canada’s rate of new cases of the novel coronavirus has eclipsed that of the United States.

An analysis of numbers collected by Our World In Data now shows that on Friday, Canada reported 205.73 new cases per million on a rolling seven-day average, relative to the country’s population, while the United States sat at 205.12.

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SNOBELEN: There’s no logic in our pandemic response anymore

If you haven’t been following the COVID-19 twists and turns, we are now into wave three. I’m pretty sure we lost the plot back in wave one.

COVID-19 started with Canadian public health officials assuring us that they had the global pandemic under control. Then the plot suddenly twisted, sending everyone into dead panic, shocked by the possibility of overflowing hospitals.

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India’s variant-fuelled second wave coincided with spike in infected flights landing in Canada

India’s devastating second COVID-19 wave correlated with the sudden spike in infected passengers from that country arriving at Canadian airports.

And that wave, say Indian health officials, is being fuelled by a recently-discovered ‘double-mutation’ strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus — a variant that combines two mutations only previously found in separate strains that increase infectiousness and resistance to antibodies.

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Ontario reports 3,813 new Covid cases … Lockdown shopping restrictions cause shortage of Tin Foil Hats!

Ontario reports more than 3,800 new COVID-19 cases as ICU admissions hit record 585

Ontario is reporting 3,800 new cases of COVID-19 today as the number of ICU patients infected with the virus hits another record high.

Provincial health officials logged 3,813 new cases today, down from the 4,227 infections confirmed Friday but up from 3,009 last Saturday.

The rolling seven-day average of new cases now stands at 3,213, up from 2,552 one week ago.

COVID-19: Ontarians push back against companies denying them access to ‘non-essential’ goods

Colero, who uses the pronouns they and them, claimed the ODSP only provides them with just under $1,200 a month and said they depend on stores like Dollarama to get their supplies.

They also claimed Dollarama has closed off access to aisles with many supplies they need and can’t afford to purchase elsewhere.

“Cleaning supplies, menstrual products, paper towels, tissues, tin foil,” Colero told Global News. “I love Dollarama because everything there is a good price and that’s really what we need, because on ODSP, we have to budget so carefully.”

I’m hoarding what’s left, Buddy needs toys.

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Ottawa mulls exempting more workers from Canada-U.S. border shutdown: Garneau

Ottawa mulls exempting more workers from Canada-U.S. border shutdown: Garneau

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says Ottawa is looking at expanding the categories of essential workers allowed to travel across the Canada-U.S. border.

He told a parliamentary committee Thursday that could mean allowing technicians in the integrated auto industry to be considered essential workers for cross-border purposes.

“We are specifically talking about different groups that would be potentially considered to be essential workers, that have the need to cross the border for specific reasons,” Garneau said.

The Canada-U.S. border has been closed to people travelling for vacations and other non-essential visits since March 2020 to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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What Do Mandatory Vaccination and Forced Sterilization have in Common?

What would you say if I told you a distraught woman recently came into my counseling office? She explained that her boss threatened that, if she didn’t have sex with him, she would be fired. He’d already banned her from all firm social activities and said that he’d do what he could to destroy her personal life too. After he was done with her, he said, she wouldn’t be able to leave the house. He would take away everything that meant anything to her.

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Canada should check its COVID-19 superiority complex: We are the laggards now, not the U.S.

If the Germans weren’t so busy with their own problems, I’d ask them to come up with a word for that feeling you get when the screw-up cousin you’ve always looked down on suddenly lands a great job, a house and a runway-model spouse while you’re left eating ravioli out of a can in a basement apartment. It’s some combination of jealousy, disorientation and sheepishness. How did the smug high ground collapse into Chef Boyardee?

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GRANT: Stop blaming people for the behaviour of a virus

GRANT: Stop blaming people for the behaviour of a virus

We’re a year into this mess, and despite all we have gone through, we are still wrongly apportioning blame. Some of the loudest voices in the media are finding scapegoats for the “third wave.”

Some of the criticism is ridiculous: Berating BC health officer Bonnie Henry’s “lax” approach to control when the rate of infection in BC is 1000-2000 cases per 100,000 population, which is less than it is in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.

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BONOKOSKI: Experts question Trudeau’s strung-out vaccine strategy

BONOKOSKI: Experts question Trudeau’s strung-out vaccine strategy

Evidence is mounting fast that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing Crazy 8s with a euchre deck and using millions of Canadians as guinea pigs by moving the second COVID-19 vaccine back by four months.

The primary manufacturers of the vaccines — Pfizer and Moderna — say 21-to-28-days is the maximum wait, not a full third of a year.

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Ontario reports 4,227 new Covid cases … and no surgery for you!

Ontario reports 4,227 new Covid cases … and no surgery for you!

Ontario reports highest number of new COVID-19 cases in three months

Ontario is reporting its highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in three months as record hospitalization numbers continue to place further strain on the healthcare system.

The Ministry of Health says that there were 4,227 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday, along with another 18 deaths.

It is the highest number of new cases in any 24-hour period since 4,249 were reported back on January 8.

Haven’t we been in a lockdown since Christmas?

Ontario orders hospitals to halt non-emergency surgeries as COVID-19 patients fill ICUs

The Ontario government’s health agency is telling hospitals across most of the province to stop performing all but emergency and life-saving surgeries because of the growing caseload of COVID-19 patients, CBC News has learned.

A memo was sent to hospitals Thursday night telling them to postpone their non-emergency surgeries, effective Monday, everywhere but in northern Ontario.

“Given increasing case counts and widespread community transmission across many parts of the province, we are facing mounting and extreme pressure on our critical care capacity,” says Ontario Health CEO Matthew Anderson in the memo, obtained by CBC News.

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