Experts are pushing back on Premier Scott Moe’s pronouncement earlier this week that vaccines no longer prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
Scientists and doctors say the premier’s position is not backed up by evidence or data.
“He’s spewing basically nonsense,” said Nazeem Muhajarine, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan.
In a statement published on Saturday, Moe wrote that “vaccination does not keep you from contracting COVID-19” and that “vaccination is not reducing transmission.”
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