COVID-19 variants and will be ready to quickly authorize needed boosters when they’re available.But Dr. Supriya Sharma said the three vaccines authorized in Canada so far offer excellent protection and, along with public health measures, can help slow the spread of the virus and potentially help stop it from mutating even further.“We knew this was going to happen, that we would have variants,” she said, in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Canada has set aside $5B for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments Coronaviruses don’t mutate as quickly as the flu, but do change as they spread among people and the more they spread, the more they change.