Ontario is not yet at the point where it can begin rolling back masking requirements even for the fully vaccinated, an infectious disease specialist says.
Several jurisdictions in the United States are allowing people who have been fully dosed with a COVID-19 vaccine to go without masks in some public and workplace settings.
Some major sports leagues have done so too after the U.S. Centres for Disease Control (CDC) relaxed its masking recommendations for the vaxxed up.
Despite rising immunization rates in Ontario, only a relatively small percentage of the population has received two doses.
“And you don’t know who that is, you don’t know who it is around you, which is why you would be wearing a mask,” Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of the division of infectious diseases at Queen’s University, said in an interview last week. “And you wearing a mask to prevent transmission is important because you don’t know who around you isn’t vaccinated.”
[Interesting Read]
Jack’s Note: For supposedly brilliant people these doctors can be dummer than your average ditch digger. It is to weep.
