Those remaining health care workers may still book a shot down the road, but will they be forced to? Probably not. “We’re not making the vaccine mandatory for anybody, including health care workers,” Strang said at the start of May. Françoise Baylis, a health ethicist based at Dalhousie University, says at this point, Strang’s decision is valid. “It would be premature to introduce something and then have to flip flop or change it or amend it, as the science keeps changing or amending. Right now, the position being taken is one that's actually quite defensible and reasonable,” she tells The Coast in a phone call. “It doesn't mean it's off the table. It means now's not the time to be focused on that at all.”