A new report shedding light on how the pandemic impacted Canada has found high immunity levels among the population --- but amid speculation that a new COVID-19 variant descended from the Omicron strain could cause a spike in infections, should Canadians be concerned?
"Most people… got sick during the Omicron wave, "Dr. Christopher Labos, epidemiologist and cardiologist, told CTV News Channel on Monday. "That's where we're at now, with about 76 per cent of the population that has had some COVID infection."
"You had a lot of people saying, 'You know, prior infection is almost 100 per cent,'" Labos says. "It's actually not." So should those at risk, such as Canadians with underlying medical conditions or who those have never had COVID-19, be concerned about the fall?
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