Vaccine hesitancy: individual choice, public threats

Canadians need a vaccination policy that is consistent across all provinces and territories, as well as a national database that allows for vaccination rates to be collected, recorded and monitored from coast to coast to coast.

Due to significant data gaps, Canada’s overall vaccine coverage is unclear, making the process of identifying and addressing problem areas very difficult.

Opinion

BY SENATOR ROSEMARY MOODIE

April 29, 2019

More Canadians contracted the measles by March 30 of this year than in all of 2018. Globally, incidence of measles infection jumped by 50 per cent last year. Europe, alone, experienced more than 83,000 cases and just south of the border, the United States saw a 500 per cent increase from 2017 leve...

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