You're going by what the government is telling you and I'm pointing out that they are making incorrect assumptions.
Do you also realize that the government considers the following groups of people as unvaccinated, when it counts covid cases:
- those who got 1 shot
- those who got 2 shots, but got covid within 14 days of their second shot (similarly if someone dies within 14 days of taking their second shot, their death would count as an unvaccinated person)
- those who got 2 shots, but got covid 120 days after their second shot
The government has made certain decisions during this pandemic that someone knowledgeable enough would question including:
- pushing ahead with AZ vaccinations while many countries put on the breaks, because of the early safety concerns around blood clots that were appearing
- saying it's no problem to delay taking the second shot, because of shipment delays, meanwhile the vaccines were studied for a specific number of weeks apart and none of the pharmaceuticals backed that notion
- encouraging mixing vaccines, again because of shipment delays, which once again none of the pharmaceuticals backed and if you read the product monograph for the now approved Pfizer covid vaccine it says:
"There are no data available on the interchangeability of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine with other COVID-19 vaccines to complete the vaccination series. Individuals who have received one dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine should receive a second dose of
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to complete the vaccination series."
Because of their gaffe the government had to ask other countries to let Canadian visitors enter, because many countries don't consider someone fully vaccinated by mixing vaccines, as such vaccines were not conceived to be used such a wat. And, the government had no choice but to start its own trial to try and support this experimental idea. You can read more about the MOSAIC trial here:
CIRN conducts a variety of research studies throughout the year, and many of these studies are multi-year projects. Often there are opportunities for members of the public to participate in studies in their local area; the Research Studies descriptions provide an overview of the study and...
cirnetwork.ca
- one of the worse things the government did was extending the expiry of a batch of an AZ vaccine. That's a huge no no. Pharma companies deal with huge losses every year from scrapping expired drug. Yet instead of donating the vaccines that were to expire, in order not to lose the drugs, the government decided it would simply extend their expiry by 1 month. If pharma companies could do that as they please, they would save lots of money! There is a reason the expiry is a certain date and that's from the data the pharma company has come up with. If they could extend the expiry date, you could be sure they would and sometimes they do after producing the data to support this.
Anyway I could keep going, but I think you get the picture.