"If it needs to be stronger then it would be a mass vaccination campaign for all above the age of 17 and, in addition to that, we will need to take into consideration that we might have a few months where masks will be needed indoors again."Ĭanada's provinces and territories have loosened many of their pandemic restrictions, including mask mandates, in recent months.
Juni suspects that Canadians 50 and older will need to get another booster shot at that time to protect themselves from serious infection that would require hospitalization. Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox."Typically through vaccines only or a combination of vaccines and infections, some of us just through infection, and then it will just depend on what we see there how strongly we need to react then."
"It will be different than before because nearly all of us will have had some to the virus multiple times," Juni said. Peter Juni told CTV News Channel on Saturday that while Canadians need to be aware of an upcoming fall wave, there is hope for a "honeymoon period" this summer as long as no new COVID-19 variants emerge.īut the challenge will come once the weather starts to cool and immunity against infection starts to decrease, he says. An expected, but likely different, COVID-19 wave is "almost baked in" for this fall, the scientific director of Ontario's Science Advisory Table says.ĭr.