An employee’s wife had received her COVID vaccine ( both shots) in January 2021. She is a healthcare worker.

Her two year old son got the sniffles. She was concerned. She took her son for his COVID test. She also got tested.

Her COVID PCR test came back as positive. Her son’s test was negative.

That was a stunner for us.

But this means that even though a person has been vaccinated, they can still spread COVID.

But an Israeli study of about 3,000 patients who had all been vaccinated, indicated that the viral load in those who have been vaccinated is low.

That means that the vaccinated persons even if they test COVID positive are much less likely transmit the virus to others.

But to be safe, it will be important to wear a mask and do social distancing even after you are vaccinated.

Raymond Rupert patient advocate and health educator.

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We used to hae Connaught Labs at Steeles Avenue and Dufferin St in North York. Then it disappeared. No more vaccine capacity of significance in Canada.

Then recently, I learned about Medicago and its greenhouses in Quebec City.

This business is one of the most interesting and innovative organizations that I have ever heard or read about and I have been around for a while.

Medicago uses plants as bioreactors. The plants produce virus like particles (VLP) which resemble Sars-COV-2. Spike proteins and all.

Check this out below. The virus and the virus like particle.

The virus like particles (VLPs) are injected into us humans which results in the development of antibodies to COVID 19.

Medicago has partnered with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to produce the final vaccine which is entering into phase 3 trials at this time.

I am a total supporter of Medicago and wish them well on the way to making 1,000,000,000 vaccines per year.  By the way, they also have a vaccine for Ebola.

High fives all around.

Raymond Rupert patient advocate and disruptor of healthcare for the common good.

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If family doctors give about 50% of all flu vaccines, then why would Public Health not involve family doctors in the distribution of COVID 19 vaccine?

This is a head scratching moment.

Lives depend on this very poor decision about distribution.

Who is making this decision? Public health? Provincial health? The Feds? The bureaucrats? Who?

Has anyone asked the authors of BlitzScaling what to do? That is Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh.

If you asked Hoffman, of Linkedin fame, and Yeh what to do they would say that we need “SCALEABLE DISTRIBUTION”.

Using hockey rinks and community centres for COVID 19 vaccine distribution is not scaleable distribution.

Using established distribution channels such as family doctor’s offices and pharmacy chains is scaleable distribution.

The Public Health folks should ask logistics experts knowledgeable in healthcare what to do and not those with the knowledge of moving tanks and battalions.

Ask the experts at the Rotman Business school or the Schulich School of Business or the Ivey School of Business about scaleable distribution of COVID 19 vaccine.

Lives depend on how this is done.

Why are we acting like ludites when approaching Vaccine distribution?

And let’s not forget about the vaccine database that is being developed too late to be of any use.

That’s another $16M mistake.

Let’s put the smart and informed decision makers to work fixing this mess.

Raymond Rupert patient advcoate and health system disruptor for the public good.

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