Arrival of vaccines means we can fight back
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The continued arrival of COVID-19 vaccinations means we are now able to fight back against the pandemic.
Almost one month ago, the first Albertan was immunized against COVID-19. Since then, Alberta Health Services (“AHS”) has steadily increased immunizations to take full use of the supply of vaccines in Alberta, beginning with those highest at risk. AHS priority list starts with health-care workers in ICUs, COVID-19 units, medical units, surgical units and operating rooms, residents and staff in long term care and designated supportive living facilities and, most recently, paramedics and emergency medical technicians. Alberta’s success against the pandemic will be the result of careful planning by our COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force (chaired by retired Lt. Gen. Paul Wynnyk), Minister of Health Tyler Shandro, and Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw.
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Toronto Mayor John Tory keeps putting masks over his entire face for some reason
High-powered politicians: They re just like us!. Or so they would have us voters
believe.
Toronto Mayor John Tory may present himself like the kind of guy who puts his pants on one leg at a time, but does he? Or does he somehow drape the pants over his entire body first before securing them on his legs?
You never really can tell what goes on behind closed doors, but press conferences are another story and from what we ve seen at least three times now in the background of government pressers, Tory has a bizarre way of putting on face masks.
In 2009, it was discovered that players and families of the Calgary Flames National Hockey League team had somehow managed to jump ahead others to get doses of the scarce H1N1 vaccine.
In 2013, a provincial inquiry into health care queue-jumping found isolated instances of misbehaviour. It urged more action to reduce surgical wait times, noting that long waits for care were an incentive for insiders to butt ahead in line.
Alberta joins a growing list of provinces that have administered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Ontario and Quebec started Monday.
About 3,900 doses arrived in Alberta on Monday night and are to be administered to high-risk front-line health workers in the coming days.