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Expectations versus reality for this summer as vaccines roll out

Canada's vaccine rollout is speeding up, raising the possibility of COVID-19 restrictions loosening in the next few months. Today on Front Burner, infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Lynora Saxinger talks about the kind of summer we could expect to have.
People are pictured at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

As more people across Canada get vaccinated against COVID-19, there are growing hopes that life might soon return to some semblance of a pre-pandemic normal.

Today on Front Burner, infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Lynora Saxinger walks us through whether that expectation is realistic, and what an accelerating vaccine rollout might mean for the way we get to spend this summer.