EDMONTON --
Nearly 75 per cent of eligible Albertans have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but the province is having trouble getting the rest to follow suit.
First-dose uptake has been dropping since May, with Sunday marking the daily lowest amount administered since February.
“With any sort of campaign, you’re going to see an initial push and big uptake, because it’s novelty. Now we’re in the hard slog,” said Dr. Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, co-lead of the AHS COVID Vaccine Task Force.
“This is not surprising from my perspective that we would have to work harder for that last 10-20 per cent, especially in some of the age groups.”