What you need to know before the J&J vaccines are distributed in Canada
TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) Canada welcomed the newest vaccine to its supply chain earlier this week with the arrival of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but quality concerns have halted its distribution across the country for now.
The only single-dose vaccine approved for use in Canada has been hailed by experts as a key to getting people in remote locations vaccinated, and as an important tool in turning the tide of the third wave of COVID-19 across the country.
The vaccines were set to be distributed to provinces next week.
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TORONTO COVID-19 variants of concern continue to push hospital ICUs to maximum capacity and are the driving force behind several provinces recent imposition of harsher restrictions for the public. Generally, theyâre also infecting a younger cohort of patients than the initial strains of the coronavirus. While in the initial two waves of COVID-19 cases among children and adolescents were low, the recent surge of variants could change who contracts the virus in Canada, said clinical researcher and Toronto physician Dr. Iris Gorfinkel. âWhat are we seeing? An increase in hospitalization and increase in ICU? And why is that? Because the variants are so much more contagious,â Gorfinkel said in a telephone interview with CTVNews.ca on Wednesday. âSo that leads to the logical question: could new variants do the same in kids?â
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I thank Dr. Hapuhennedige for the informative article published in CMAJ , “Vaccination debates may obscure access issues.”[1][1]
Canada continues to lack a tracking system for adult vaccines. Instead, provinces and territorial public health records contain vaccination records for children only