Health committee  Thank you, Dr. MacDonald and Dr. Hanley. I now give the floor to Mr. Garon for six minutes.

Health committee  . There are a couple of things that we know make a difference. I wish we could get more people singing from the same song sheet, because we know it matters. That's why I pulled up the politicians in our health care system. The other thing was—and Dr. Paes really said it—we didn't necessarily make

Health committee  Thank you, Dr. Yu. Dr. MacDonald, you have the floor for the next five minutes. Welcome.

Foreign Affairs committee   to the intent of the amendment. The amendment said that Dr. Fry's motion that's before us should not be done until after the completion of the studies on Ukraine, vaccine equity and Taiwan. It is a major change to say “the committee make a decision on”. As I was saying, I don't know why

Business of Supply   on. There are not many federal restrictions left, but a few still remain. That is already out of touch. I am a member of the Standing Committee on Health, and last week we heard from Dr. MacDonald, a professor at Dalhousie University who specializes in pediatrics and infectious diseases. I asked her

Health committee  It has some of it, but it is not good against delta, for example. It's wimpy against delta, okay? There are two phylogenetic trees that have come off: the omicron branch, blah, blah, blah, and the one that had alpha, beta and delta off of it. They are quite far apart in terms o

Health committee  The reason that people don't want to just do an omicron variant vaccine is because we know that's not the last variant we're going to have. We want to try to be protective against that whole family. They're now working on trying to get a COVID-family vaccine that would protect yo

Health committee  Thank you, Dr. MacDonald.

Health committee  The big takeaway is that we need more research money, and that means we need to give more money to CIHR and the other tri-councils.

Health committee   in circulation that has mutated significantly, particularly on the spike protein, by logic should reduce its efficacy. What would your position be on that, Dr. MacDonald? In other words, if we get a third booster or a fourth booster, are we not just boosting the production of antibodies

Health committee  Yes, but let me explain. The companies have been looking very hard about putting together a vaccine that would have two pieces in it: one that would have the spike protein that was in the original Wuhan virus, which is in the the vaccine that we've been using on millions and mil

Health committee  It has gone through significant mutations, but there are a lot of places that it hasn't changed. When you respond, it's to all of the different pieces that are on the spike protein. That's why it still works against serious disease, against omicron, if you have been immunized. Yo

Health committee  Bad language about people who don't accept vaccines is totally unhelpful.

Health committee  Yes, that would be helpful. Let me reframe it for you. Is it better to prevent the fire or get to the fire early? It's always better to prevent the fire, if we can. Paxlovid is only trying to put the fire out when it's already burning. Yes, sometimes it works. Yes, it can decre

Health committee  First of all, we needed much better communication out there. Communication experts know what they're doing, but they have to know the science behind it to know what it is they need to be doing. That's the general communication or the media communication. I think your comments ar