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The COVID-19 vaccine is making its way into the arms of more of Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable residents, even as the province continues to grapple with deadly outbreaks in long-term care.
Wayne Nogier said he is seeing both of those realities. Nogier is the CEO of Mont St. Joseph special care home in Prince Albert, which is preparing to receive its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine as soon as this week.
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He’s also the acting administrator at Lakeview Pioneer Home in Wakaw, where staff are assuming that 100 per cent of the 44-bed home’s residents have COVID-19. Three had died as of Thursday afternoon.
The light at the end of the long COVID tunnel is now visible in Prince Albert.
The first recipients at the start of the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the city Thursday included health care staff and long term residents. And with these crucial vaccinations came messages of hope – along with continued doses of realism – that this may well be the beginning of the end of a virus that has so far claimed 177 lives in Saskatchewan with more than 17,000 others testing positive.
“I feel very fortunate to be [among the] first to be vaccinated,” said Dr. Romashnee Moodliar, a practicing physician working at the city’s COVID Testing and Assessment site. “I think it will definitely help us turn the corner in fighting this pandemic, but I urge people not to lose sight of the fact that we still need to continue social distancing, washing our hands and wearing masks for a long time to come.”
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The COVID-19 vaccine is making its way into the arms of more of Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable residents, even as the province continues to grapple with deadly outbreaks in long-term care.
Wayne Nogier said he is seeing both of those realities. Nogier is the CEO of Mont St. Joseph special care home in Prince Albert, which is preparing to receive its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine as soon as this week.
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He’s also the acting administrator at Lakeview Pioneer Home in Wakaw, where staff are assuming that 100 per cent of the 44-bed home’s residents have COVID-19. Three had died as of Thursday afternoon.