Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Teresa Tam says all COVID-19 policies, including provincial vaccine passports, need to be “re-examined” as the virus is here to stay for months or even years. “What we do need to do, going forward as we emerge from the Omicron wave, is to recognize that this virus is not going to disappear and we need to be able to address the ongoing presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a more sustainable way,” Tam said in a virtual press briefing on Feb. 4. Tam made the comment while acknowledging that the virus will morph into different variants and forms with various degrees of risk in the future. “Some will actually be quite severe or disruptive and we need to be ready for them. But we do need to have more longer-term sustained approaches and capacity-building so that we’re not in crisis mode all the time …