WELLNESS WHAT’S THE ANSWER? When the editor, Roger Tumminieri, first asked me to write an article about the vaccine rollout, it was a few days before the Ontario government announced our third state of emergency since the start of the pandemic. Admittedly, I didn’t anticipate that I would find myself in the midst of another province-wide lockdown while writing this article. Today, news is delivered through social media, force-feeding bite-size information into the palms of our hands, nearly at the speed of light. Our challenge is filtering through it. To know the path forward, we should stop following headlines and start following sources behind them. Truly understanding our situation is more powerful and impactful than blindly marching alongside the masses. One author, one headline, or one publication should not cascade to conclusion. They say hindsight is 20/20, but looking back, I still feel confused about how things spiraled out of control so quickly. In a matter of weeks, the headlines turned from “vaccines 95% effective”
DR. TIMOTHY KODSI Medical Lead Mimico Medical
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