Wed Dec 8, 2021 – 2:52 pm ESTWed Dec 8, 2021 – 4:31 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos hinted last week that government edicts such as travel bans and vaccine mandates enacted due to the COVID crisis might continue for months or even “years.”
“There will always be, unfortunately, people who will be infected with COVID and some of them will have severe symptoms,” said Duclos during a press conference last Friday. “It’s a lot better to avoid these people having to go to a hospital for all sorts of personal and public health reasons.”
Duclos said that the latest news of a partnership with major drugmakers Merck and Pfizer for new oral antiviral COVID 19 treatments is a “fourth” tool in the government’s “toolbox” to combat the spread of the virus.
“It’s a very significant step in further enhancing the tools with which we can use over the next months, possibly even years, in order to protect both people and the healthcare system,” said Duclos.
Meanwhile, several studies have shown that ivermectin, a widely-used generic drug with virtually no risk of serious side effects, can be effective against COVID-19.
Regulators and drug makers have nevertheless aggressively suppressed the medication, though various leading experts like Dr. Peter McCollough, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, Dr. Robert Malone and the 12,700 doctors and scientists who signed
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