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by YZF 1866 days ago
As a fellow Canadian I'm happy that finally we get some common sense in this pandemic. If we hadn't taken this approach we'd still be heading up on case counts instead of heading down, increasing the vaccinated base is what has turned the tide on the third wave and is what's going to end the pandemic here months sooner than it would have ended otherwise.

We don't have time to RCT test all scenarios. That's how life works. The long term immunity as a function of delta between the first and second shot has not been tested at all. J&J vaccine is one shot mostly because it can only be one shot yet it still works. There are other aspects that have not been tested in the trials. We need to make reasonable decisions under uncertainty in an ever changing landscape.