RNAO welcomes Premier Ford taking important steps to implement vaccine certificates
RNAO issued the following media release on Sept. 1 in response to the government’s announcement of a vaccine certificate.
MSF: Following full FDA approval, Pfizer-BioNTech must share COVID-19 vaccine technology to boost global supply
Earlier this week the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the US. The following is a media release from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) addressing the COVID-19 crisis in Africa and the devastating lack of vaccines.
Mandatory vaccination in process; vaccine certificates coming to Ontario
RNAO has led the call for mandatory vaccination of workers in health-care and education and has pushed for enacting vaccine certificates in the province. Mandatory vaccination is already under way in key sectors, but much work remains. We are calling on the Ontario government to make an announcement on vaccine certificates on Monday.
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Calling on Canada to back WHO Moratorium on Booster Shots and Donate Vaccines
The following article is adapted from the website of the Global Strategy Lab (GSL), a joint initiative of York University and the University of Ottawa. It excerpts from an August 16 opinion article in the Toronto Star by GSL Research Fellow Dr. Roojin Habibi, GSL Director Dr. Steven Hoffman and University of Toronto Professor Dr. Lisa Forman.
WHO condemns rush by wealthy nations to give Covid vaccine booster
The following is adapted from an article by Agence France-Presse in Geneva that appeared in The Guardian on August 18.
Ontario’s nurses welcome the province’s announcement and call for a stronger vaccine mandate and action on vaccine certificates
RNAO issued the following media release in response to the government’s August 17 announcement on vaccination policy.
Nurses call on voters to vote for a healthy recovery for all
With a federal election happening on Sept. 20, 2021, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) calls on Canadians to vote for health. RNAO’s policy platform for this election, released today, asks voters to choose health when they head to the polls.
RNAO welcomes continuing public health restrictions and mandated vaccination for health care workers: More to be done to protect our children and the economy nurses say
RNAO welcomes the news that the Ontario government will mandate vaccines for hospital, long-term care (LTC) and homecare workers, give booster shots to the vulnerable, and halt further reopening. RNAO calls for further urgent action and urges the premier, minister of health, other cabinet ministers, and Ontario’s chief medical officer of health to move quickly and save lives.
Is it more infectious? Is it spreading in schools? This is what we know about the Delta variant and kids
This article by four Australian pediatricians summarizes what we know about the Delta variant and schools.
Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines
We are in the midst of a fourth wave driven by the Delta variant. This July 5 article from Michael Toole, Professor of International Health at the Burnet Institute in Australia, summarizes what we know about this variant.
