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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail Force them. Fine them. Fire them. When stories emerge of a significant minority of health care workers refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine, the response is often an angry one. Of course, hospital and long-term care homes desperately want workers to get the vaccine, because it’s one of the b...

Leaving hundreds of thousands of vials in freezers as the coronavirus pandemic rages on is an insult to both health care workers and elders who desperately need the protection of vaccines

I’m a doctor at a teaching hospital, and a specialist in internal medicine. The patients I look after are often incredibly sick. But the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make this winter are about what to do with one very specific patient: me. I have a history of unusually severe immune responses to common viral infections. Bone marrow suppression, hepatitis, arthritis, a rare nerve injury syndrome. It’s a black hole in my personal history, and despite extensive workups, a problem with no name. What could it mean, coupled with a new and unpredictable virus? I don’t know. Neither d...