Patricia Treble

Canadians have gone through something akin to war, and the end is in sight. But history tells us the last months can be the cruelest.

Vaxx Populi: Canada now has strong supply and demand of vaccine doses and is vaccinating 0.88 per cent of the population daily

The virus isn’t just flying into Canada. It’s also on a criss-crossing tear inside our borders.

To know when we’ll return to normal, we must first figure out how to get there. One Prairie province might just show the way.

Vaxx Populi: Ontario and Alberta have stopped giving first doses of AstraZeneca. What does that mean for those who’ve already had one?

Vaxx Populi: Recent polling has shown 85 per cent of Canadians have either received a first vaccine dose or want to receive one. And that’s up from 76 per cent in February.

Vaxx Populi: NACI described mRNA vaccines as "preferred," but the protection all vaccines—including AstraZeneca—offer from COVID is ’immensely higher’ than the risk of blood clots

The province has the highest rate of active cases in Canada and could see as many as 4,000 new cases a day by May 22

Vaxx Populi: Some research has found more side effects after one dose of AstraZeneca than of Pfizer. But there’s no evidence that a stronger reaction means stronger immunity.

Vaxx Populi: We need 75 per cent of adults to have a first dose and 20 to have a second. How soon might we get there?