While the Saskatchewan government has signalled it intends to use doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to administer second shots for those who first re.
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Apr 29, 2021 | 9:36 AM
Many pharmacies across Saskatchewan will receive COVID-19 vaccines as they embark on a pilot project to deliver jabs.
Sixty-three pharmacies in 14 communities will be participating.
According to Dawn Martin, chief executive officer for the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan, pharmacies are receiving the Pfizer vaccine.
The Pfizer vaccine is kept at ultra-low temperatures and has a limited shelf life once it’s been thawed.
“That pharmacist and pharmacy team will have about four or five days to get it into people’s arms,” Martin said.
“That’s part of the challenge, in terms of their ability to really quickly ramp up and make sure that none of that vaccine is wasted.”
Ralph Goodale. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Canada’s new high commissioner to the United Kingdom has arrived at his new post, where he hopes to build on “an incredibly good relationship.”
“It’s a relationship that’s built on a lot of personal friendships and family connections but also long history, a shared form of government, a shared monarch,” Ralph Goodale said Tuesday.
“(There are) lots of common values (and) lots of common interests that we have worked on together for decades and decades and decades. It’s a very solid foundation but the relationship can always get better.”
(Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Infectious disease physician Dr. Alex Wong’s advice regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine remains the same: Take the first vaccine offered.
Wong was speaking to the Greg Morgan Morning Show on Wednesday, a day after the first instance of a vaccine-induced blood clot was reported out of more than 700,000 doses administered in Canada.
“I’ve said it so many times before and it feels like a broken record. The most effective vaccine is the first one you’re offered, especially at this time, with variants circulating so aggressively in the province,” Wong said.
Wong sees a messaging challenge with the vaccine, which has been put under intense scrutiny. But despite AstraZeneca being under the glare, he said the regulatory process has unfolded as it should have.
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