COVID-19 vaccination rates among younger Canadians aren’t high enough as the rate of first-dose shots is slowing.“Now that the vaccine’s been around for some time we are getting a bit concerned that that group isn’t offering their arm, as it were,” Tam said at a virtual news conference Thursday.She said younger Canadians tend to be socializing more, and can infect older Canadians if they carry COVID-19, who may be more vulnerable to the disease even if they are fully vaccinated.
Vaccines are reducing infection rates greatly, and evidence suggests vaccinated people who do end up contracting COVID-19 get very mild, if any symptoms.