Roy L Hales / CKTZ News - North Island Medical Health OfficerDr Charmine Enns recently gave Campbell River’s city council an overview of the pandemic’s impact on the Greater Campbell River Health Area, before and after vaccinations.

The intervention we have been waiting for “Everything we did to the point in time before we had the vaccine was to buy us time for vaccine. We had to have these population restrictions, which has caused significant harm. There were public health orders; there were public health restrictions; businesses were shut down; people were afraid,” she said.

“The vaccine is the intervention we have been waiting for. There is nothing more to wait for, this is it … and it is very effective. Not only is it effective for the previous strains of COVID, it is equally effective for the variants that we know are here – including the Delta variant.”