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House Hansard - 68

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 10, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 68 - May/10/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/10/22 2:44:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to answer this question. There is no secret and no secret evidence. Everyone knows that vaccinations save lives. About 163,000 lives would have been saved in the United States just from omicron if they had had a higher vaccination rate. In Canada, we have been vaccinated to a large extent, and that is why we have been successful, with one of the lowest rates of death in the world from COVID-19.
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Context: House Hansard - 68 - May/10/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/10/22 2:47:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let me say what everyone knows, which is that vaccination is not punishment. Vaccination is protection. When we vaccinate ourselves not only do we protect ourselves against a disease that can be very serious, but we also protect those around us whom we like and we love. Therefore, we protect them and their community. With respect to vaccination, just in the past few months, the rate of boosters in Britain has avoided about 130,000 hospitalizations just during omicron.
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Context: House Hansard - 68 - May/10/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/10/22 2:48:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the reason we can relax public health measures is that Canada has high vaccination rates. Without vaccination in the last six months of 2021, without strong public health measures, by some estimates, we would have had 400,000 deaths in Canada during that period. We cannot choose to relax public health measures without having the right vaccination rates.
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