Further down in the article it mentions that the spike in infections is partly due to a flu type that wasn’t targeted by this year’s vaccine.
In best matched years, the efficacy is about 60%, this year, it will be about 40%.
The problem is all the lessons of hygeine and masking from 2020-2022 are gone, mostly driven by teachers who refuse to mask but have ALL been out >1 week with flu at my kid’s high school.
Ontario is cold Florida. We approach public health with denial now.
Yawn. Vaccinate.
Sadly, they did not get the vaccine right this year, and it doesn’t offer much protection.
Says who? a fucking journalism grad at CBC?
Even in worst matched seasons, there is protection. But, we encourage people to walk around sick without masks and not even wash their hands after going to the toilet any more. We used to teach hygiene in schools, we even had a U of T school of hygiene we shut down.
Sorry but in what world are we teaching kids not to wash their hands? This seems a little hyperbolic to claim.
In what world? How about the real world?
https://www.cdc.gov/clean-hands/data-research/facts-stats/index.html
19% even “wash”, but 1 in 20 properly wash.
Historically, parents only vaccinate kids in Ontario at about 28% -you think these shit 72% parents are teaching how to properly wash hands?
This is not teaching them to wash. It’s not teaching them NOT to.
One implies omission of responsibility, the other implies a more sinister agenda. There is a difference.
For what it is worth I generally agree that we are not being responsible in how we educate…welll…anyone.
However, I do not think there is a cadre of humans pushing an anti-washing agenda because hygiene is too woke, though I fully acknowledge that the potential for something as stupid as this to be become real is high.
Why are you yelling at CBC journalists? They make this very clear in this very article:
The latest available vaccine effectiveness estimates show the current shot is up to 75 per cent effective at preventing hospital visits in children aged two to 17 years, and 30 to 40 per cent effective in adults, said the WHO.
19% effectiveness does not offer much protection.
19-0 = 19, please, someone check my math.
The vaccine offers protection. That’s how vaccines work.
Only if they guess the correct strains for the year, which they have to do about 6 months in advance.
…Only if they guess the correct strains
No guessing is involved. They base the Northern vax on the prevalent strains from the Southern hemisphere (and vice versa). Unfortunately a nasty varient started making the rounds shortly after the Northern vax was in production.
An educated guess is still technically a guess
Yup, exactly.
If only there was data to predict it, and scientists who are qualified to make vaccines.
What does that have to do with it? Doesn’t mean they are perfect and get it right every year.
The US stopped this data analysis in 2025. They swim in shit instead.
Have the day you vaccinated for.
Of course I have my vax. Just don’t have high hope for much protection this year.
Health officials in Ottawa say three children have died this month from flu-related illness as cases surge in the region earlier than is typical.
You can vaccinate children.
You can vaccinate children.
Ofc you can. I was responding to the snark from velindora, not saying that kids can’t be vaxxed.
That is my username. What are you talking about?? I never said kids could not be vaccinated
Neither did I. I simply quoted the article to you in response to your ‘yawn’ … as in kids are dying from this flu and your comment was unwarranted.
No, it’s perfectly fine to enjoy the leopards. Take your thoughts and prayers elsewhere.
Not in hick Ontario.
It’s a law that children cannot be vaccinated in Ontario?
Not when parents are using Facebook for advice. To give you an idea of how ignorant this province is, only 28% get a free vaccine for children, and only 37% of children with chronic illness where flu could kill them.
Florida ain’t got nuthin on Ontario.
