SASKATOON Last week the province announced it would be shifting its focus from mass vaccinations to outreach, targeting those who are unvaccinated. “We have noticed that at our mass immunization clinics and our drive-thrus, the uptake has been less,” said Dr. Kevin Wasko with the Saskatchewan Health Authority. Wasko says they’re bringing clinics to where people live, work and play so that it’s more convenient to receive the vaccine. Some of the places people can expect to see walk-in clinics, according to a news release from the SHA, include planned summer events, university campuses, retail locations, pow wows, provincial parks and more.
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Saskatchewan’s correctional centres are facing COVID-19 “outbreaks of concern” driven by COVID variants, the province’s physicians heard Thursday.
Correctional facilities were highlighted as one of several workplaces leading to declared outbreaks during Thursday’s weekly physician town halls. Corrections came up a handful of times in the presentation.
Dr. Johnmark Opondo, who gave the epidemiological update, told his colleagues that correctional settings “have been really prominent in terms of care production numbers.”
He said outbreaks in Regina and Saskatoon correctional centres as well as at Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, are considered “outbreaks of concern” and are all being driven by variants.
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A pair of Saskatchewan Health Authority officials told doctors during a weekly town hall meeting that experts recommended “numerous times” the inclusion of jail inmates and staff in the province’s COVID-19 vaccine prioritization, according to a leaked portion of a written exchange.
The province, however, continues to immunize inmates on age-based criteria.
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In response to a question during Thursday’s town hall meeting about the exclusion of provincial jail inmates from vaccine prioritization, Dr. Kevin Wasko the physician executive for integrated rural health said the clinical expert committee “did recommend the inclusion of both inmates and staff at correctional facilities early in the campaign. That was also endorsed by the oversight committee. The Ministry and SHA has advanced
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A pair of Saskatchewan Health Authority officials told doctors during a weekly town hall meeting that experts recommended “numerous times” the inclusion of jail inmates and staff in the province’s COVID-19 vaccine prioritization, according to a leaked portion of a written exchange.
The province, however, continues to immunize inmates on age-based criteria.
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In response to a question during Thursday’s town hall meeting about the exclusion of provincial jail inmates from vaccine prioritization, Dr. Kevin Wasko the physician executive for integrated rural health said the clinical expert committee “did recommend the inclusion of both inmates and staff at correctional facilities early in the campaign. That was also endorsed by the oversight committee. The Ministry and SHA has advanced th
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