OTTAWA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The spread of COVID-19 misinformation cost at least 2,800 lives in Canada over nine months of the pandemic, a new report said on Thursday.
The report was released by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) which commissioned a quantitative economic model to provide an estimate of the direct healthcare costs of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy between Mar. 1 and Nov. 30, 2021.
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