Ontario reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for second straight day
For the second straight day the province of Ontario is reporting more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases.
Health officials confirmed 1,053 new infections on Saturday – a slight increase from the 1,031 that was reported on Friday.
WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as Covid variant spreads
The Omicron variant has been detected in at least 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the World Health Organization has said, amid warnings that it could damage the global economic recovery.
The United States and Australia became the latest countries to confirm locally transmitted cases of the variant, as Omicron infections pushed South Africa’s total cases past 3 million.
And 3 doses was always the plan!
COVID-19 vaccines: Do we really need boosters?
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases faculty member at the University of Toronto, said “semantics matter,” adding that COVID-19 boosters should really just be referred to as a third dose.
Bogoch said many vaccines are administered in three doses, and pointed to the Hepatitis B vaccine as an example.
“So I think we should be thinking of this as a three-dose vaccine series,” he told CTVNews.ca in early November.
