Moe said his government could consider large worksites with several hundred workers moving up the priority list.
He added that the province may be able to use mobile clinics to vaccinate those workers.
But the premier maintained that we will not sacrifice the capacity of our plan. We are going to have a needle offered to everyone in this province by sometime in early June, if we continue to receive vaccines from the federal government, which I think we will.
The Saskatchewan Medical Association is critical of the plan, saying the government s refusal to immediately vaccinate essential workers, including physicians and health-care workers who have not yet received their shots, will result in more deaths and long-term illness.
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It appears an ambitious goal to get vaccines in the arms of all adults in Saskatchewan has become even more ambitious.
During a provincial COVID-19 briefing Wednesday, chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab once again asked everyone to “hold the line” and “stay the course” for the next several weeks, even though variants of concern (VOCs) continue to spread in southern Saskatchewan and now in the Saskatoon region.
That’s because he says if all goes according to plan, everyone over the age of 18 will “have access” to their first shot in four to six weeks, including those 50 and older by April 15.
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SASKATOON The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) is calling on the province to pivot its COVID-19 vaccination plan to include essential workers. Currently, vaccination priority is based on age in Saskatchewan. SUN says it’s time to adjust that strategy and give the shot to all essential workers including grocery store workers, police officers and teachers. Tracy Zambory, president of SUN, says it’s critical to include essential workers as new variants of COVID-19 are spreading across Saskatchewan and ICU beds are already over capacity. “If we keep ourselves on this trajectory we must change our vaccination strategy,” Zambory tells CTV News.
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