Article content Over the weekend, Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, told an online audience that even the fully vaccinated can still spread and contract COVID-19. “There’s reduction in your risk of transmission, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate your risk of transmission,” she told a virtual town hall. The statement is technically true. But the risk of transmission for the fully vaccinated is so infinitesimally low – about 0.01 per cent according to U.S. data – that Tam may as well be highlighting the dangers of getting strangled by a seatbelt. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.