COVID-19 vaccines first arrived in Manitoba a month ago, and since then the province has consistently sat near the back of the pack in using the doses it’s received.
By this weekend, Alberta is expected to have given first doses to all long-term care and supported-living residents. Quebec is a few days behind.
It will take Manitoba about a month to reach that threshold.
Both those provinces show how Manitoba can ramp up, by automating booking systems and bending the timeline for second doses.
Alberta beefs up
As of Wednesday, Alberta had administered 97 per cent of the doses it has received, compared with roughly 40 per cent of Manitoba doses.
Quebec, then Ontario In Ontario, a personal support worker in Toronto named Anita Quidangen was the first in that province to be vaccinated on Monday. Tamara Dus, left, gave Ontario’s first COVID-19 vaccine to Anita Quidangen, right, shortly after 12 p.m. ET on Dec. 14. (Image credit: Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press) Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Quidangen, who has been a personal support worker for more than 30 years, often did double shifts during the pandemic to care for residents. “Anita has spent years rolling up her sleeves to protect our province, and today, she didn t hesitate to find a new way to do so,” Ford said.
I feel like a miracle is happening : Long-term care residents in Quebec waiting eagerly for vaccine
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to reach Quebec will be dispatched in the coming hours to the Maimonides Geriatric Centre, where residents and staff have been struggling to contain a deadly outbreak for the past month.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 4:14 PM ET | Last Updated: December 14, 2020
The Maimonides CHSLD is slated to be one of the first in Quebec to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.(Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)