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Amid a torrent of bad news about the coronavirus pandemic, there’s been some good news recently: At least three vaccines that have shown strong promise could be ready by the Spring, bringing a light at the end of the tunnel into view and offering a path to an end of a virus that has claimed more than a million lives and thrown the world into an economic tailspin.
To make sense of the vaccines news, Down to Business spoke to Tom Blackwell, a reporter for the National Post.
Blackwell said experts told him that the vaccines could downgrade this virus from something deadly to a common cold.
But it’s a mistake to think vaccines can end the pandemic, he said, noting they won’t necessarily stop transmission of the virus, which means remote working may continue for awhile longer.
Blackwell also spoke about how the success of these vaccine trials may impede other vaccines from advancing, why Canada is ordering nearly 10 doses per person — more than any other country — and what we know at this point about where people are catching the virus.
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