What The Health - Ep 6: Slow and Steady Vaccine Uptake

Episode 6 debunks the idea that everyone who will get the vaccine has gotten it by now.
About me:
Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Western University - uwo.ca/fhs/nursing/about/facu...
Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute - www.lawsonresearch.ca/scienti...
The purpose of “What the Health?” is to explore issues and questions in healthcare to look at the science and research evidence that explains both simple and complex health challenges.
Sources for this video:
Vaccination uptake over time: russell-pollari.github.io/ont...
Total vaccination progress: covid-19.ontario.ca/data
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[@jonschmidt7591]

are you in favour of firing workers in low risk settings? is that the kind of "encouraging" you support?

[@nurseabe]

What's the setting, specifically?

[@jonschmidt7591]

What about truck drivers and farmers? Does the risk of covid justify marginalizing unvaccinated? What about barring them from grocery stores? Quebec is now requiring a vaccine passport to purchase alcohol; are you aware of this? A unvaccinated alcoholic may have natural immunity, follow the social distancing/masking, but may die from an enforced lack of alcohol. Abe, you run the risk of becoming a spokesman for this kind of authoritarianism as you appear to euphemistically express "hopefulness" that "encouraging" people works. I'm concerned that we're losing our way as a nation and our values are disappearing.

[@nurseabe]

@@jonschmidt7591 You're claiming that farmers are being fired for not being vaccinated? Are you serious or just messing around?

[@jonschmidt7591]

@@nurseabe so interesting that you chose to only reply to the thing that made the least sense to you. There are conversations that need to be had, but culturally, we're avoiding them