Regular updates and ‘keeping politics out of it’ key to COVID-19 vaccine rollout, say experts, politicians

Public trust is key for effective public health initiatives, says top infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch. 'Obviously that’s multi-faceted, but one of them is openness, honesty and transparency about what you’re doing, what’s going well, what’s not going well, and how you’re going to fix what’s not going well.'

Health Minister Patty Hajdu, left, and Chief Medical Officer of Public Health Theresa Tam pictured speaking with reporters in Ottawa on Dec. 11, 2020 at a technical briefing on the government’s roll-out of vaccines and response to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

January 11, 2021

As both public health experts and politicians express concern over the slow rollout of Canada’s vaccination regime so far, one of the country's top infectious disease experts says the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the associated push for widespread vaccinations against the virus “is a crisis; it...

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