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Efficacy rates of vaccines should not be the criteria for Canadians to delay vaccination: Experts
Ottawa/IBNS: Canadians have been advised to get vaccinated with whichever COVID-19 vaccine being offered irrespective of the efficacy rates to prevent the lengthening of time it takes to get the pandemic under control, said Dr. Peter Liu, scientific director of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table on Tuesday.
Health Canada has determined the efficacy rates of both Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines be around 95 per cent, AstraZeneca-Oxford's efficacy rate of 62 per cent, and Johnson & Johnson's efficacy rate of 66.9 percent.
But Liu told the Canadian Press that out of thousands of participants in trials for the vaccines, not a single person who received a shot died or was hospitalized from COVID-19, CBCNews reported.
"If people start to do that, they actually prevent Canadians from moving slowly back to normal," he said and added that long-term care homes are the only settings where it makes sense to use the highest efficacy vaccines, as residents are at extreme risk.
For most people, "there is no such thing as a bad vaccine," he said.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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