Canada surpasses US vaccination rate. This is sad. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/0...-us-vaccination-rate-after-lagging-for-months
OTOH: https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pa...ccinations-among-us-republicans-and-democrats ---"Keep your chin up"
Trudeau will be happy to kill off some Canadians for the sake of tourism dollars. Canada will finally open its borders, first to Americans, beginning August 9 https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/world/us-canada-border-opening/index.html
Apparently Biden extended the border closure to Canada today indefinitely. Can't have those Canadians coming down here they might bring cheese fries and strong beer. Meanwhile the southern border is wide open.
Yesterday : US 61.6K new cases, 365 deaths ; Canada 382 cases, 14 deaths. Vaccination rates now higher in Canada ( fully and partially ). Even higher in Toronto. Everything's pretty much open for weeks now; any restrictions are capacity related indoors and not something that can't be worked with. The lesson here is the ramblings of a complete fool like TreeFrogTrader are pointless in nature. When you have a problem, like a shortage of vaccines, you deal with it. In the case of Ontario, it was taken care of very quickly. Meanwhile, a disease that should be well under control in the US ( vaccines been readily available for ages; some come with perks like free lottery tickets ) isn't. You can't cure stupid overnight. Too many ignorant people in the US acting not according to science or common sense; too many acting on their political beliefs and what they read on social media. Which is of course where TreeFrogTrader comes in. Peddling dumb ideas online. Doesn't seem to be killing off Covid yet. There is no point to fools like him. Something went wrong in his upbringing and he's lost in bs.
U.S. will not open the land border from Canada to allow Canadians into the U.S. U.S Land Border not opening to Canadians https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/07/us-border-not-opening-canadians/ Canadians and Americans were understandably thrilled to learn of the recent news that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is opening the border for non-essential travel in the coming weeks, starting first by permitting our neighbours to the south — if they are fully vaccinated — to come back into the country for leisure purposes starting Aug. 9. Unfortunately for us in the Great White North, it doesn't appear that the U.S. intends to reciprocate the gesture. President Joe Biden and his team are extending current measures at land and water crossings until at least Aug. 21, it was revealed on Wednesday, with their Department of Homeland Security stating that the threat of transmission of COVID-19 between the two countries still presents "specific threat to human life or national interests." "DHS is in constant contact with Canadian and Mexican counterparts to identify the conditions under which restrictions may be eased safely and sustainably," the body wrote on Twitter late Wednesday morning after confirming the news, which had broken through a pre-published U.S. Federal Register document earlier in the day. (More at above url)
Oh... look Canada has even a worse problem than the U.S. with getting lazy bums back to work after giving them government payments for not working during the pandemic. Of course, this has led to the usual debate with "stop paying them taxpayer dollars to sit on their butts" from the right... to the "employers must pay them much more and treat them like royalty" from the left. If employers can’t find workers, they should stop complaining and start offering better jobs https://www.therecord.com/opinion/e...mplaining-and-start-offering-better-jobs.html
Canada’s Delta-driven 4th wave of COVID-19 will be ‘different’ amid vaccinations: experts https://globalnews.ca/news/8074620/canada-covid-cases-cdc-report-fourth-wave/ As public health officials warn of an incoming Delta variant-driven fourth wave of COVID-19, experts are saying that its spread will likely be “very, very different” than Canada’s previous waves. The warning came from chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam on Friday, who pointed at the upward trend in cases across Canada. The public health agency of Canada’s long-range epidemic forecasts “suggests we are the start of a Delta-driven fourth wave,” Tam told reporters at a press conference. Tam warned that if vaccine uptake doesn’t increase in the country’s younger populations, cases could eventually exceed some communities’ health-care system capacities. The news also comes on the heels of a new CDC report and study, the former of which warned that the Delta COVID-19 variant could be as contagious as chickenpox and the latter pointing to a string of outbreaks even among those who have been vaccinated. However, according to Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Queen’s University, Canada’s fourth wave of COVID-19 will differ greatly from its previous ones despite the CDC reports and warning from PHAC officials. “If we have a fourth wave, it’s going to look very, very different than the previous waves,” said Evans. He said that there’s “no way” that such a wave would be as big as the previous ones simply because of Canada’s vaccinations rates, which remain among the highest in the world. Even with Canada’s rise in cases, Evans said that they would primarily be in unvaccinated communities, pointing to the fact that over 97 per cent of all new cases were among those who did not get a shot. Canada added at least another 218 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing its total infections to 1,431,219. Another two deaths were reported as well, with the country’s death toll now standing at 26,600. Over 1.39 million people have recovered and more than 49.5 million vaccinations have been doled out. Active cases now look to be on the rise across the country, though. Thursday saw another 903 new cases, Friday 897 more and Saturday another 531. In comparison, Canada recorded 391 recoveries on Thursday, 412 on Friday and 190 on Saturday. This weekend’s COVID-19 data is limited, however, with only Ontario and Quebec reporting new cases as of today. According to Evans, the CDC’s study on vaccinated people contracting COVID-19 after large events actually presents stronger evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines. The main problem in the study he said was that the disease control agency was not reporting denominators — the amount of people that had visited or travelled around the state during the period which the study was conducted. According to the CDC, 469 cases were found among Massachusetts residents from July 3 to 26, and of those, 74 per cent were among those fully vaccinated. Evans estimated at least 100,000 people travelling and moving around the state’s events during that time period, and that the only 469 cases reported among such high volume events were a better indicator of vaccine’s effectiveness. Secondly, Evans pointed to the high vaccination rates in the state — Massachusetts has at least 72 per cent of its population having received at least one dose and over 63 per cent of its population fully vaccinated, compared to the national average of 57.7 per cent and 49.6 per cent, respectively. Speaking on the Roy Green Show, Dr. Ronald St John, the former WHO director for the Americas and national manager for Canada’s response to SARS, expressed caution when interpreting the findings of the internal CDC report that pointed at the ability of the Delta variant to spread like chickenpox. He pointed out as well that the data in the report was not peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal. “I assume they mean [Delta is spreading among] unvaccinated people, but it’s not specified,” he said. “How often they spread it, the frequency of spread — that’s what’s not clear to me in the data that’s been presented so far and so far, I think it’s just been an internal document that’s been spread around. So I’m waiting to see a little more data.” Read more: Canada facing the start of a Delta-driven 4th wave, top doctors warn According to University of Toronto epidemiologist Dr. Colin Furness, the next wave would be “primarily experienced by unvaccinated people.” He pointed out in a previous interview with Global News that the vaccines were a “firebreak” that acted to prevent mass spread of the virus, as well as hospitalizations and severe outcomes. Instead of the previous mass outbreaks of COVID-19 in Canada, Furness said that they were now more likely to occur in non-vaccinated people, who “occur in clumps.” “They’re not randomly, evenly distributed among the population. It’s a church group. It’s an ethnic group. It’s people in an apartment building,” he said.