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HALTON, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – A University of Toronto infectious diseases expert and assistant professor of medicine has called into question the efficacy of the current COVID jabs and the wisdom of inoculating an ‘entire population’ with COVID booster shots.   

On Sunday, Dr. Neil Rau told the host of the mainstream radio Roy Green Show that despite high COVID vaccination rates in Canada, “for sure we’re going to see an increasing number of cases in Canada overall as we go into the winter months.”  

Rau added that he did not think Canada would experience a strain on the health care system as a result because so many people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.  

However, when asked about the coming “booster” shots, Rau opposed their universal application. 

“I worry that this is going to become an imperative for everybody to get it, and I don’t think that’s the way they should go,” he said.

The doctor questioned the wisdom of having an “entire population” “revaccinated” with “a booster of the vaccine directed at the exact same…strain.”

Rau also acknowledged the inefficacy of the COVID jabs, saying that “the first one to three months after you get the vaccine… the immunity starts to wane.”

On November 9, Health Canada released a statement declaring their approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech booster jab for those 18 and older.  

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, told reporters recently that “boosters for the general population are not required at this time, but the Committee on Immunization and the Public Health Agency and the provinces will monitor this vaccine effectiveness over time.” 

Rau remarked on the push to have health care workers jabbed with a booster because the vaccines have been proven not to stop transmission in a significant way. He suggested that this was a “slippery slope” and would create an ongoing cycle of revaccination, a “situation where people aren’t current [with vaccine doses] every three months”. 

When asked about children being vaccinated against COVID-19, Rau told host Roy Green that giving kids the shots is “more to protect other people than to protect them.” He added that “masking kids in schools” is “really questionable” because is it “really important for kids’ development” for them to not be wearing a mask when they’re learning.   

The professor voiced his hopes that jabbing kids will not be “mandatory” and that “we don’t have vaccine passports for five-year-olds.”   

Rau said that Canadians having to present COVID tests after returning home after short trips across the USA-Canada border was “insanity” and “makes no sense.” He thinks a test taken before travel to the USA should be considered sufficient.  

Towards the end of the interview, the host asked Rau what he thought about the segregation of the unvaccinated from public life in Austria. The expert replied that it was being done “for the wrong reasons” because it is not proven that “unvaccinated people are the vectors driving the outbreak.” The house arrest policy would therefore do nothing to stop “surging in the health care system,” he said.  

However, Rau’s last words were against Canada’s own policies against the unvaccinated.  

“But we also have to take hold of ourselves when it comes to vaccine passports,” he said.  

“Why are we doing this, and when are we going to stop?” 

This interview was not the first time that Dr. Rau had called into question aspects of the public health narrative in Ontario. Last April he told Global News that closing schools was a mistake and that banning outdoor activity was useless because “we know that outdoor transmission doesn’t happen.”  

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