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On the day the first British Columbian received a vaccination against COVID-19, a poll shows that two-thirds of people in the province say they will step up and get the jab.
“The question that needs to be asked is not are you going to (get the vaccine), but why wouldn’t you,” said Wesley Lewin of Maple Ridge.
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“My father’s dad died of polio when (my father) was just five years old, and that wasn’t that long ago,” said Lewin of the once-prevalent contagious viral infection that caused paralysis and sometimes death before a vaccine was developed.
According to Communications Director Beth Hegde, they received just under 4,000 doses.
Providence Health Care will begin giving the vaccine to high-risk caregivers starting on Friday.
Hegde said the current amount of vaccines in their possession is not enough to vaccinate all their caregivers.
High-risk caregivers include the emergency department, ICU, respiratory therapists and hospitalists.
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Good morning! It’s James Keller in Calgary.
Provinces in the West and across Canada have started vaccinating against COVID-19 – the start of a complex and painfully slow operation that has raised optimism that the end of the pandemic is in sight.
Health Canada approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last week and the shipments began arriving in Canada within days. The first vaccinations in the country happened in Ontario and Quebec on Monday, with other provinces, including B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan following suit yesterday. Manitoba expects to get its first vaccines today.
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SPOKANE, Wash. The number of people in a hospital bed continues to grow, and the Washington State Department of Health says it’s rising across the state, though at a slow rate.
With new cases, staffing constraints and more holidays on the way healthcare officials have concerns. According to the DOH, about 12% of hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients across the state.
“We continue to exceed what we saw the day before and that’s what really concerning,” said Dr. Dan Getz, Chief Medical Officer with Providence Health Care. “I think this is absolutely a result of what we saw during Thanksgiving.”