Health committee  Yes, managing a pandemic requires a structure in which everyone speaks with the same voice. It takes a degree of centralization, but that does not exclude adapting to local realities. In fact, the marching orders cannot apply in the same way in a province with no cases of the vir

Health committee  The predominant variants are the one from South Africa and the B117 from England. For those two variants, the vaccine response seems adequate with both vaccines, from Pfizer and from Moderna. The South African strain shows some resistance to the antibodies that the vaccines gener

Health committee  No evidence suggests that we should move in that direction. No study on combining vaccines has been conducted. With vaccines available to such an extent, as everyone is telling us, we have no reason to want to combine vaccines.

Health committee  That is an important and interesting question. Until now, we have used rapid tests in a limited way because some, like antigenic tests, are less sensitive than traditional tests. However, there are several types of rapid tests and we must not confuse them. Rapid tests can still

Health committee  We need to be extremely careful about vaccination passports. I find the idea a little premature. If we give out vaccination passports, what do they show? We are still not sure about the duration of the immunity that vaccines provide. Some people may have had one dose and others

Health committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Thériault. It is important to be concerned about the variants, because they could completely change the dynamics of the epidemic. Currently, the number of cases and hospitalizations is going down, but everything could change if the variants becom