Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his COVID-19 vaccination policy helped Canada get through the pandemic and criticized related “misinformation and disinformation,” but he also said some people experienced side effects from the shots.
“The challenge that we have now is that increasingly, misinformation and disinformation [are] carrying people to believe things that are untrue. Vaccinations [are] a perfect example of it,” Trudeau said on April 24 while having an armchair discussion with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the University of Ottawa.
“Like any modern bit of medical advancements, there are potential side effects in vaccinations, and there are people who’ve probably gotten very sick from vaccinations [among] the billions of people who’ve been vaccinated against COVID over the past few years.”…