Dalhousie University Infectious Disease Specialist and researcher, Dr. Lisa Barrett wants to see higher levels of vaccination in light of a new Omicron subvariant now in circulation.
Only about 24% of the total eligible population in NL is up to date on their COVID vaccines.
Barrett would like to see higher vaccination rate, but she believes it may reflect the number of people who have recently picked up the virus.
She says for those who recently contracted COVID, “that is their vaccine, at least in the time frame.”
That makes the incidence of COVID in the community, who is getting and how their affected “difficult to interpret “due to a lack of regular testing” according to Barrett.
She encourages anyone who hasn’t recently been infected with COVID to get their updated bivalent vaccine.
Story courtesy of VOCM.