Vaccines not the full solution for keeping Canada's COVID-19 numbers down, most experts agree. "This donation is a result of our proactive approach to securing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines in our initial contracts. Anand said the provinces told the Public Health Agency of Canada that they have all the AstraZeneca they need, which allowed the federal government to make the donation. The closest the panel got to an explanation for this decision was the observation that senior leadership overseeing GPHIN — mostly people with no public health background — were worried about optics. In a statement, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada said that the health regulator had "not received a submission from Pfizer for the approval of a COVID-19 booster shot."

Source: CBC News July 12, 2021 19:41 UTC