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It has been one year since the first COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in Ottawa. In that time, more than nearly 1.8 million doses have been administered locally.
Article content With news coming in from “the real world” to help governments contradict what Pfizer, Moderna, the World Health Organization and others are telling them, jurisdictions everywhere are starting to delay second doses of the COVID-19 vaccines in order to make more first shots available to more people, sooner. The logic is that evidence from “the real world” shows that the first dose alone is effective in reducing the severity of COVID-19, lowering both the death rate and the need for hospitalization. So, the reasoning goes, let’s give the second shot later than recommend...