Federal Update on COVID-19 Vaccines – October 7, 2022

In a news conference on Parliament Hill, Jean-Yves Duclos, the federal minister of health, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, and Dr. Howard Njoo, the deputy chief public health officer, provide an update on COVID-19 vaccination and monkeypox. They discuss Health Canada’s authorization of Pfizer's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, which targets the original SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants. The minister also comments on the nationwide shortage of children's pain medication.