Some good news and some bad news in the media lately. Two vaccines, one by German/US firm Pfizer and BioNtech and the other by US firm Moderna showed to be 90 and 95 percent effective respectively in late stage trials. There has also been significant developments in vaccine trials in China and Russia. But those are two countries you shouldn't trust what they say, especially China. Not surprisingly the effectiveness of China's vaccine has not been released. So hopefully a vaccine will be available to the wider population soon.

The bad news is that we are well into the second stage of the pandemic, with large numbers of active cases in Alberta and Ontario especially. Nunavut which had no cases suddenly has 60 centered around the community of Arviat. Even more worrisome there is the cases of covid 19 is through community spread and they haven't been able to trace the source.