Saturday marks three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and Canada'a chief public health officer says the virus has reached a relatively steady state in this country.
Omicron subvariants continue to spread but hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths have stabilized
Tam says population immunity is high due to an overall high vaccine uptake combined with the immunity people got from infection. She says officials are continuing to watch for new strains of the virus that can evade people's immune systems.Tam cautions that this does not mean that COVID-19 is over. She says people who are older or immunocompromised continue to be disproportionately affected by the virus.The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending an additional bivalent booster dose this spring for for adults at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 if it's been six months or more since their last shot.Tam says over the past three years, there have been millions of COVID-19 cases in Canada and more than 51,000 people have died.
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