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More than 300 Calgary pharmacies offering COVID-19 vaccine Pharmacist Brian Jones with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Evergreen Village Shoppers Drug Mart in Calgary. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
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My COVID Story: How have you been impacted by coronavirus?
Postmedia is looking to speak with people who may have been impacted by COVID-19 here in Alberta. Have you undergone a travel-related quarantine? Have you received your vaccine, and if so did you feel any side effects? Have you changed your life for the better because of the pandemic? Send us an email at reply@calgaryherald.com to tell us your experience, or send us a message via this form.
‘Gaps in the system’: Calgary traveller shocked by Ottawa’s uneven quarantine measures Arriving international travellers head to the COVID testing area at Calgary International Airport on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Photo by Azin Ghaffari/Postmedia/File
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A Calgary woman living with a serious lung condition said getting her first vaccine dose was like being released from prison, though she knows she’s not yet fully protected.
Nicki Perkins has already overcome the odds with cystic fibrosis by living to age 48 without a lung transplant.
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“When I went to get the vaccine on Saturday, it felt like I was out of jail and I’m looking around the world going, ‘This is what the rest of the world does? This is so weird,’ ” she said.