A briefing from federal health authorities setting out the rationale for imposing vaccine mandates in the fall of 2021 raised ethical concerns and acknowledged that the vaccinated may transmit COVID-19 as much as the unvaccinated, but it nevertheless encouraged mandatory injections.
“There is some emerging evidence documenting that COVID-19 cases (Delta variant) in fully vaccinated individuals may have similar viral loads than unvaccinated cases,” says a briefing by Health Canada (HC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) dated August 2021.
The briefing did not raise questions about the utility of mandating vaccination if the COVID-19 shots do not stop transmission, with HC/PHAC instead making a case for the use of masks….