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To: FJB who wrote (1283974)	12/18/2020 4:42:12 PM
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Trudeau offers sombre Christmas message but says 500,000 vaccine doses are coming early in the new year Roughly 375,000 Canadians should be vaccinated with the two-dose Pfizer shot by the end of January December 18, 2020 While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged today that Christmas won't be the same this year, with wide swaths of the country under COVID-related lockdowns, he said there's reason for optimism in 2021 now that hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses are expected to arrive early in the new year. Speaking to reporters outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Trudeau said the government got word today that Pfizer will be shipping 125,000 vaccine doses per week in January 2021 for a total of 500,000 shots — primarily destined for the arms of front line health care workers and long-term care home residents. Pfizer has committed already to delivering 249,000 doses to Canada in December. All told, roughly 375,000 Canadians are expected to be vaccinated with the two-dose Pfizer shot by the end of January. Canada is also anticipating the delivery this month of 168,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, enough for about 84,000 people. The Moderna product is still waiting on Health Canada's regulatory approval. "This is the largest immunization campaign our country has ever seen, and I know we have the right plan and the expertise we need," Trudeau said. "But remember, a vaccine in a week or in a month won't help you if you get COVID-19 today." WATCH: Prime Minister Trudeau offers update on vaccine delivery Trudeau updates Canadians on the number of vaccine doses expected to arrive soon in Canada (1:57) Trudeau urged Canadians to continue to follow public health guidelines over the holidays. While the vaccine news is promising, he said, Canadians should resist complacency. "Our fight against this virus is not over, even as we're preparing to say goodbye — and good riddance — to 2020. It may be the holiday season, but we have to be more careful than ever," Trudeau said. Asked about the prospect of getting even more Pfizer doses, Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand said today she's in constant communication with the company to discuss the possibility of "accelerated timelines" and to "ensure Canada has the earliest possible access to Pfizer doses." Canada is still on track to take delivery of 4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the first three months of 2021, she said. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a current Pfizer board member, said this week that because the U.S. passed on ordering 100 million more doses of the vaccine, the company's Kalamazoo, Mich., plant could send that product to other countries in the second quarter of 2021. Watch: Trudeau questioned about vaccine deliveries, impact on Christmas.: Trudeau questioned about vaccine deliveries and why governments couldn't save Christmas from lockdowns (2:19) Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said today's announcement that Canada will receive a specific number of Pfizer doses in January may give the provinces leeway to accelerate their vaccination campaigns. While all provinces have started delivering shots, most have stockpiled the second dose of the two-dose regime to ensure they have enough supply on hand. If a steady supply of vaccines is expected, Tam said, some provinces may opt to just vaccinate as many people as possible without keeping a reserve. "It's great to hear this schedule," Tam said. "If you know there's 125,000 coming per week in January, that makes planning for that second dose much easier in terms of not necessarily having to hold back the initial ones ... so I think those details are to be worked out on the ground." Pfizer has stipulated that the second shot should be administered 21 days after the first to ensure the 94 per cent effectiveness rate documented in the clinical trials U.S. vaccination campaign pulling ahead of Canada The U.S. is expected to vaccinate many more people than Canada in the coming weeks. Gen. Gustave Perna is the military general leading Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. mission to develop and distribute a vaccine. He said Pfizer already has shipped 2.9 million doses to the United States, with millions more to follow by month's end. Some U.S. governors, however, are reporting that their allocations of the vaccine are less than what they expected. The U.S. also has secured 100 million doses of the promising Moderna product for the first three months of 2021 alone. Canada expects to receive about 2 million Moderna doses between January and March. Operation Warp Speed largely bankrolled the vaccine's development, the clinical trial process and the large-scale manufacturing operations, spending $4.1 billion so far to support Moderna. All Canadians who want a shot will be vaccinated by September 2021, public health agency says Canada expected to receive 168,000 doses of Moderna vaccine by month's end, Trudeau says Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief science adviser to the U.S. vaccine operation, has said every American who wants a vaccine will get one by June. The Public Health Agency of Canada told CBC News Tuesday that it expects to have enough vaccine doses on hand to vaccinate every Canadian by the end of September, 2021. Asked what he would do to close the Canada-U.S. vaccine gap, Trudeau said the federal government has secured one of the broadest portfolios of promising vaccine candidates in the world. "The Americans have a health care system that will have challenges and will have successes. We have our own process. We're focused on our own process to make sure that as many Canadians as possible get vaccinated, as quickly as possible, with vaccines that are safe and effective and approved by Health Canada," he said. Watch: Trudeau is asked why many Canadians aren't listening to pandemic messaging.: Trudeau is asked why many Canadians aren't listening to pandemic messaging (1:58) Health Canada is currently reviewing other vaccines from companies like AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical division, Janssen. In total, Canada has ordered roughly 418 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from seven different companies — an insurance policy against the risk that some of the vaccines in development prove to be ineffective. About The Author Related Stories All Canadians who want a shot will be vaccinated by September 2021, public health agency says Canada expected to receive 168,000 doses of Moderna vaccine by month's end, Trudeau says View Comments on cbc.ca Most Popular in News Ford government mulling COVID-19 lockdown in southern Ontario starting Boxing Day, sources say She put cat litter in an Amazon package, and a porch pirate stole it 40 minutes later Trudeau offers sombre Christmas message but says 500,000 vaccine doses are coming early in the new year Photo of maskless Alberta premier and ministers sparks outrage, official complaints 350 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths in Manitoba, health officials say ©2020 CBC/Radio-Canada. All rights reserved.

To: FJB who wrote (1283974)	12/18/2020 4:43:38 PM
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How can vaccinating you, save me?

To: FJB who wrote (1283974)	12/19/2020 5:54:13 PM
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I wonder if Muslim rape gangs take Christmas off to social-distance. UK: Muslim rape gangs still active, 2,000 victims in the last year were ‘fobbed off by authorities’ December 19, 2020 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER The UK government claims that most of the rape gang members are white, by which they mean to semaphore that they’re non-Muslim. Yet it was fear of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” that led British authorities to allow the Muslim rape gangs to continue operating with impunity in the first place: “At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013,” and British officials did nothing; they “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” So apparently these officials were afraid of appearing racist against white people. And they’re still afraid, as this report shows. “Grooming gangs continuing to abuse children in northern England, victims and campaigners warn,” by Jason Farrell, Sky News, December 11, 2020: Grooming gangs continue to abuse children in northern towns and police are still failing to investigate, according to alleged victims and campaigners. Whistle-blower and former detective at Greater Manchester Police, Maggie Oliver, has told Sky News that she’s helped 2,000 victims in the last year alone who have been “fobbed off by the authorities”. Sky News understands that the Home Office is preparing to publish a paper on predatory gangs as early as next week. One alleged survivor of child sexual abuse has told Sky News she continues to be attacked by a gang now that she is an adult, and she was punished by them with a violent sexual assault after she gave a statement to the police about her historical abuse. “Sarah” took us to the place where she alleges she was raped. It’s a bleak journey. As the road snakes across barren moorland, the only break in the landscape is wind farms churning the foggy air. She said she was abducted after speaking to the police and taken to a secluded place where she’d been abused as a child; a layby on the West Yorkshire moors. Sarah isn’t her real name and to further protect her identity we won’t specify which Yorkshire town she is from, but she wants her story told because she fears police inaction is putting her and other women and children at risk. She said: “They raped me first and then they said to me ‘stop speaking to the police, don’t speak to the police, why are you doing that?’ All that kind of stuff and then he hit me. “He cut my stomach [with an old blade from a pair of scissors] and then hit me around the head.” Sarah was allegedly abused by the gang from the age of 14, but after reporting historical and ongoing attacks she has been arrested herself numerous times for public order offences and failing to provide a breath sample. On one occasion, after reporting being raped, she claims her finger was broken after being slammed in a police cell door. In contrast, Sarah said none of her abusers have faced charges. She believes West Yorkshire Police hasn’t taken the claims seriously nor acted to disrupt the gang’s activities….