OTTAWA —
Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu is apologizing for feedback she made about COVID-19 vaccination and the danger related to the virus.
Gladu stated the remarks she made on CTV’s Query Interval on Sunday, opposing vaccination standing disclosure and calling into query the severity of the virus, had been “inappropriate.”
“Upon reflection, I acknowledge how harmful it’s to share misinformation concerning the severity of COVID-19 and the protection and efficacy of vaccines. I retract these feedback in full,” a press release reads.
“I apologize unreservedly to Canadians. I additionally apologize to my caucus colleagues and Chief for the distraction my feedback have created.”
Gladu has been the face of the brand new intra-party caucus to defend the rights of these unvaccinated.
“Vaccines are a secure and efficient option to restrict the unfold of COVID-19 and forestall critical sickness. I encourage each Canadian, who is ready, to get vaccinated. On the subject of the protection and efficacy of vaccines, it must be physicians and public well being specialists who advise Canadians, not politicians,” she stated.
Within the CTV Query Interval interview, she in contrast COVID-19 to the polio illness that unfold within the first half of the twentieth century, however stated the novel coronavirus doesn’t pose the identical “frequency of danger.”
“By way of the danger, people who acquired polio, lots of them died and plenty of of them had been crippled, and that isn’t the identical frequency of danger that we see with COVID-19…I’m simply receiving the knowledge from medical specialists that speak concerning the relative danger. I am not a health care provider myself.”
On the peak of the polio epidemic in Canada, in 1953, there have been practically 9,000 circumstances and 500 deaths from coast to coast. For the reason that begin of the COVID-19 pandemic there have been 1.74 million circumstances and 29,192 deaths in Canada.
She additionally took difficulty with vaccine mandates and disclosure of vaccination standing.
“Persons are being pressured to reveal this. And that’s one other difficulty that we have to discuss as a result of what’s subsequent? What subsequent, will you be pressured to reveal about your medical historical past?” she advised Query Interval.
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