Maybe I can start. I'm not sure if Dr. Tam is on the line. Madam Chair, I'm not sure if she's on the list of deputants. I think it's an important question.
The reality is that vaccines are a very important tool, but that is what they are. They are a tool. We have other tools as well that we will need to continue applying. No one really knows the end game here with COVID-19. We do know that we are going to have to continue to protect each other while we undergo vaccination, while we understand the role of vaccination on onward transmission and while we develop better therapeutics to manage COVID-19.
There are some scientists who wonder if COVID-19 might not become like an annual flu, which we will have to combat in very specific ways.
All of that research is critically important and it's why we've invested in the Canadian Institute for Health Research in such phenomenal ways to ensure our full research community here in Canada is looking at all of those aspects of managing COVID-19.