MONTREAL --
Quebec authorities made sure to repeat the point clearly several times this week: in this province, if you’re at least 14, you can decide on your own whether to get a vaccine.
Parents don’t need to agree, or even to know.
It doesn’t work quite like that in other provinces—Quebec is unique in the hard-and-fast age cutoff it draws for medical consent. And that system is soon going to be exercised like never before as the world’s most famous vaccine comes to the province’s teens, likely sometime in June.
“We will give the parents… good information, and even the kids, because some of them who are 14 years old and [older] can ask questions,” said the province’s public health director, Dr. Horacio Arruda, on Thursday.