Some concerning policy shifts have taken place in Canada that are important to talk about.

It’s rather shocking, considering even Florida still offers COVID-19 testing, but Alberta announced today that by Aug. 31, they will no longer be testing for COVID-19 in the community.
It’s understandable that we all want to move forward, but to stop testing for it when a highly infectious variant is spreading rapidly through a still unvaccinated ~30% population along with much of the world remaining unvaccinated, is irresponsible.
Variants exist due to spreading through humans. As a virus spreads and replicates, errors in the genetic replication can cause new mutations of the virus, which could cause variants that are less effective or more effective at spreading/causing severe disease.
The theory of evolution applies to a virus as it mutates - the less effective variants die out, whereas the more effective variants become dominant, continue to mutate, and become better versions of themselves.

The danger here is a variant could emerge that is vaccine resistant.
Nova Scotia is making incredible progress in fully vaccinating the population, with an increase of 2.3% just yesterday.

Nova Scotia now ranks 4th in the country in terms of proportion of the total population fully vaccinated, behind Ontario, NWT, and Yukon, respectively.
Vaccines are a very important tool in helping us return to a normal life, but they need to be supplemented with masking indoors, physical distancing, and hand washing until we reach an acceptable level of herd immunity, and also hopefully get a vaccine approved for all ages.

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26 Jul
1 new case of #COVID19NS is being announced today, July 26, which includes the reporting periods for July 25 and July 24.

There are 13 known active cases in the province with no hospitalizations.

The new case is in Central Zone.
75.4% (+0.2% since Friday) of the entire population of Nova Scotia has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

57.6% (+1.9% since Friday) of the entire population of Nova Scotia is fully vaccinated. 17.8% still need to receive their second dose.
Notably, 91% of those aged 80+, 91% of those aged 75-79 and 85% of those aged 70-74 have all been fully vaccinated.

As expected, the group with the lowest two-dose coverage is those aged 12-14 (due to Pfizer supply).

The least vaccinated age group is currently those aged 20-24.
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