It was always known that Canada’s failure to procure timely vaccines would yield otherwise preventable waves of disease, but only now is the rubber starting to meet the road.
Ontario is fast approaching more active cases than at any time since the start of the pandemic, with the province now racking up a new COVID-19 diagnosis every 15 seconds, the majority of them the highly infectious and more deadly variants. Upticks are also rearing their head in Quebec and Western Canada. In British Columbia right now, nearly 10 per cent of the 100,000 COVID-19 cases logged since March, 2020 have occurred within the last two weeks.
