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B.C. health authorities are ramping up vaccine clinics with extended hours and more staff to quickly deliver the more than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines expected to arrive this month.
After months of unreliable vaccine supply from Ottawa, B.C. received 276,000 doses of Pfizer this week with the same amount expected every week this month for a total of 1.1 million doses in May. Hundreds of thousands of doses of Moderna vaccine are also expected this month, said Health Minister Adrian Dix.
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Dr. Meghan Gilley, an emergency room physician who got the COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant with her first child, is encouraging other expecting mothers to protect themselves and their babies by getting the shot.
B.C. announced this week that pregnant people will be given priority for the COVID-19 vaccines while jabs could be offered to kids 12 and older before the end of the school year, prompting physicians to assure both groups that the vaccines are safe, in an effort to dispel hesitancy.
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B.C. kids aged 12 and older could receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine before the end of the school year, according to health officials.
Following Health Canada’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine for use in children as young as 12, B.C. will integrate them into the province’s vaccine rollout, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Wednesday.
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“We’re working on how do we do that and how do we do it in the most efficient way possible,” she said. “There’s lots of possibilities, including making sure we can get that done prior to June.”
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With signs on the B.C.-Alberta border the only thing to deter our provincial neighbours from vacationing here, there’s growing concern that Alberta’s high COVID-19 rates could spill into B.C., just as cases edge downward here.
Alberta has more than 23,000 active COVID-19 infections and has the highest case rate of any jurisdiction in North America. A record 154 infected people were in intensive care on Monday.
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The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is warning that as Alberta grapples with the highest number of COVID-19 cases per capita in Canada, interprovincial travel could increase transmission in B.C.