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Manitoba's Deputy Chief Provincial Public Health Officer, Dr. Jazz Atwal and head of the vaccination task force, Dr. Joss Reimer, addressed the province today regarding vaccines and their safety.

Reimer said that the Delta variant is much more deadly:

"There was a new study that came out of the U.K. that looked at all people who were infected with either Alpha or Delta variants of COVID over several months this spring, and when Delta was spreading rapidly amongst their population, and it showed what we've been hearing fro a lot of other jurisdictions as well, that Delta is more likely to result in more severe outcomes, including hospitalization, emergency care and death."

Reimer also noted that the COVID-19 vaccine is proven safe:

"We also have some good new data coming out of the United States surrounding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. The Journal of the American Medical Association released a new study earlier this month and it conducted an analysis of 6.2 million people who received 11.8 million doses of an mRNA vaccine, and they found no significant difference in many different types of potential outcomes that we were worrying about."

82.9% of people in Manitoba are at least partially vaccinated.