Essential workers seek to be vaccinated as Manitoba talks about pivoting to target COVID-19 hotspots
Manitoba s vaccine task force is pivoting to target certain workers or hotspots where case numbers are high, now that people 59 and older are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. That has certain groups clamouring to be prioritized.
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WINNIPEG Infectious disease experts and advocates for frontline workers are calling for a revised vaccination strategy amid growing concern over the severity of more infectious COVID-19 variants in younger people. Experts who spoke to CTV News said vaccinating based on age was the right strategy to start, but they are now calling on provinces to push younger workers providing essential services closer to the front of the line. Dr. Alexander Wong, an infectious-disease physician in Regina, Sask., said a revised strategy is needed because of an increasing number of severe outcomes in younger Canadians as more transmissible variants circulate.
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Winnipeg-based Migrante Manitoba organizer Diwa Marcelino said the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on people of colour, many of whom work in food processing. (Winnipeg Free Press)
Workers in meat and poultry processing plants should get priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine given the risks they face at work, according to a coalition of Manitoba unions and immigration groups.
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Workers in meat and poultry processing plants should get priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine given the risks they face at work, according to a coalition of Manitoba unions and immigration groups.
The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on people of colour, many of whom work in food processing, said Winnipeg-based Migrante Manitoba organizer Diwa Marcelino. Migrante Manitoba is part of the coalition calling for priority access, Health Care for All Manitoba.
Essential workers, immunocompromised must wait for COVID vaccine shots as Manitoba determines priority by age
The praise being heaped on essential workers during the pandemic won t translate to an early vaccination in Manitoba at least, not yet.
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Essential workers are in close contact with people every day, but it doesn t put them higher on Manitoba s pecking order for a COVID-19 vaccination than other people of the same age. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
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Shared Health chief nursing officer Lanette Siragusa (left) and chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin, shown here in October, were a constant fixture in the news in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on. (File)
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