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Dr. Sudit Ranade
Public health emergency declaration is rescinded
The Yukon government has lifted the public health emergency under the Public Health and Safety Act.
The Yukon government has lifted the public health emergency under the Public Health and Safety Act.
The move follows a recommendation from Dr. Sudit Ranade, the chief medical officer of health, the government said in a statement Monday.
In alignment with provinces and other territories, “lifting the public health emergency is another step the Yukon is taking to manage COVID-19 in a more sustainable way while continuing to support Yukoners’ well-being,” the government said.
“As COVID-19 continues to evolve, it can be managed within the existing structures used to manage other communicable diseases.”
Yukoners are encouraged to continue to take steps to stay well, including staying up-to-date with vaccinations and remaining at home if they feel sick.
Post-COVID-19 condition remains a priority, the government said, adding it’s committed to tracking emerging evidence and identifying and supporting the needs of Yukoners experiencing long-term effects of the virus.
“I extend my gratitude to all Yukoners who have shown resiliency and adaptability during these challenging times,” said Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee.
“While the lifting of the public health emergency is another step to managing COVID-19 like other communicable diseases, COVID-19 remains a public health concern that we will continue to monitor closely to ensure we are addressing the needs of our communities.”
A public health emergency was declared due to COVID-19 on March 18, 2020 under secton 4.3 of the Public Health and Safety Act.
Under the Civil Emergencies Measures Act, other regulations were put in place to manage COVID-19. These have since been rescinded.
“Although the public health emergency declaration for COVID-19 is being lifted, COVID-19 remains an important public health concern,” said Ranade.
“With good protection against severe outcomes through immunization, the ongoing circulation of COVID-19 can be managed with other respiratory viruses using routine communicable disease procedures.
“I strongly encourage anyone, especially adults, who remain unvaccinated to consider getting the COVID-19 vaccine to protect yourself from severe outcomes of the virus.”
Some settings like long-term care homes, health centres and hospitals may continue requiring public health measures and isolation periods to protect vulnerable Yukoners.
“Vaccination remains the best way for Yukoners to protect themselves, their loved ones and communities from severe outcomes related to COVID-19 and related variants,” the government said.
Vaccines and booster shots remain available throughout the territory.
To be up-to-date on vaccinations, Yukoners must receive all eligible vaccine and booster doses, and are urged to book their appointment.
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@ Anonymous on Jan 20, 2023 at 6:57 pm
The UNvaccinated were being characterized as a burden on the health care system 2 years ago. Careful where you step….
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DL on Jan 18, 2023 at 12:45 am
There never was an emergency. By June 2020 it was determined that the case fatality rate for covid was similar to the flu, and the great majority of these deaths were people in their eighties and/or with comorbidities. But the controlled media obeyed big pharma interests, and kept fearmongering non-stop.
Keep in mind that the covid experimental injections have only been approved for emergency use to this day. Now the question is, since the emergency declaration is officially rescinded, that should end the distribution of the covid injections as well. Right?
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DL on Jan 18, 2023 at 12:39 am
Ranade is non-stop recommending the covid shots, but no mention whatsoever of risks from these injections. At this point, when multitudes of reports in Canada and worldwide are coming out about severe adverse reactions to these shots, I think it’s reasonable to conclude that failure to mention the risks associated with these covid injections borders on criminal negligence.
Here’s just one example:
“Australian Doctor Injured by COVID Vaccine Slams Regulators for ‘Censoring’ Public Discussion, Calls for More Research”
“Dr. Kerryn Phelps, who said she and her wife suffered “devastating” COVID-19 vaccine injuries, slammed regulators for “censoring” public discussion and called for more research into vaccine adverse reactions.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/australian-doctor-kerryn-phelps-covid-vaccine-injury/
To protect our overstretched health care system, we need the truth about the harms caused by these covid injections. That should be the role of a public health official. Taxpayers aren't paying CMOs' cushy salaries just to hear them promoting big pharma's products.
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North_of_60 on Jan 17, 2023 at 6:44 pm
A Cleveland Clinic study conducted to demonstrate the clinical effectiveness of the bivalent vaccines found that the risk of Covid-19 infection increases with each prior vaccination. Also, the bivalent jab turned out to be no more than 30% effective at preventing Covid — and this at the height of BA.5 variant, against which it was targeted.
Because Pfizer only tested the effectiveness of their BA.5 bivalent vaccine on a handful of mice, there has been understandable interest in working out whether the shiny new jabs actually do anything in return for inflicting an unknown number of injuries and undesirable side-effects on the Pfizer Pfaithful. Towards this end, a few scientists at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio have conducted a retrospective cohort study of Clinic employees who received the bivalent vaccine between September and December of this year.
Of 51,011 people ultimately included in the study, a mere 10,804 opted for bivalent vaccination. In another blow to the logic of perpetual vaccination with subpar ineffective products, the authors note that their cohort had “too few severe illnesses for the study to be able to determine if the vaccine decreased severity of illness.” Because it’s severe outcomes and death, rather than infections, which matter, this is the same as saying the bivalent vaccines are totally pointless, especially in the younger cohort (mean age 42) studied here.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1.full.pdf
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@ Roy on Jan 17, 2023 at 4:55 pm
Deaths from all causes in 2019 exceeded those in 2020. Deaths from all causes in 2021 exceeded those in 2020 by some 40 per cent. The average life expectancy has dropped by 3 years in the past year. For the record, I was not sitting on the toilet when I collated those statistics.
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Matthew on Jan 17, 2023 at 3:32 pm
Didn't know we were still under one... I guess we finally get to see those ridiculous plastic barriers removed now? Take the signs off the walls in public spaces? I wonder where all that non-recyclable plexi glass will go.. LOL! Oh the irony..
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No way jose on Jan 17, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Oh where oh where did this doctor come from never see him around the Yukon.
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Mr Facts on Jan 17, 2023 at 2:56 pm
There never was an emergency in the first place.
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MILK on Jan 17, 2023 at 2:43 pm
I will not be getting any more vaccinations in relation to the covid 19.
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Jeff Bikaboom on Jan 17, 2023 at 2:31 pm
“I strongly encourage anyone, especially adults, who remain unvaccinated to consider getting the COVID-19 vaccine to protect yourself from severe outcomes of the virus.”
I suspect anyone who was courageous enough to remain unvaccinated for the last two years will not succumb to your encouragement.
It is interesting how the wording of promotions have changed recently. "to protect yourself from severe outcomes of the virus". No longer to protect others? No longer to stop transmission? Do they still only work if every single person gets one?
Thanks for the encouragement. I think I will stick with natural immunity and protect my heart.
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Anonymous on Jan 17, 2023 at 2:16 pm
Injured vaxxies are a burden on our healthcare system, I think all vaxx injuries should be treated through the MAID program. Why should productive purebloods have to endure an overburdened healthcare system clogged with broken jabbies?
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Roy on Jan 17, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Thank you Yukoners. Thank you vaccines.
But most of all thank you politicians - including Pierre Polievre and Erin O'Toole and Stephen Harper and Jason Kenny and Rob Ford and Donald Trump and Currie Dixon - who are all vaccinated and who all put in vaccine mandates and instituted mandatory masking and lockdowns.
It's in part because of their leadership that we got through this crisis as well as we did. Thank you Conservative leaders! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for ignoring your loudest and most selfish voters. That took guts.
And despite the predictions from the all-Star "the sky is forever falling!" team in here these measures were not permanent - just like they weren't in 1918 and during Sars and H1N1 and all the previous pandemics the fringe is too ignorant or unwilling to examine.
But be patient and just wait for the next crisis that you can blame on the great reset, the WEF (of which Stephen Harper is a member), Bill Gates, and tracking chips- as you rail against it all while being tracked by the youtube conspiracy videos you ingest.
History will repeat itself as long as human intelligence follows a bell curve and you and your fellow 5% members are all hanging out in the shallow end sharing the research you did while sitting on the toilet.
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Juniper Jackson on Jan 17, 2023 at 12:50 pm
A law is only as good as the peoples willingness to accept it. A lot of bad legislation is coming down the tubes. I hope everyone takes a stand.. stand for something, or fall for anything. Desktop warriors? ok.. we can all be pretty powerful..Ask Anonymous and Reteah Parsons.