Documents obtained by CTV News show taxpayers footed the bill for more than $100,000 in personal living expenses for an ousted B.C. health-care executive.
VANCOUVER Health officials have made good on a promise to provide a plan to vaccinate pregnant people in B.C. against COVID-19, announcing the next day that expectant residents aged 16 and up are now eligible. In a news release Tuesday, health officials said those who are pregnant and within that age group are now a priority in its immunization plan. All Health Canada-approved vaccines are safe and effective, and I encourage everyone to register and receive their vaccine as soon as they are eligible. Today, this includes people who are pregnant, Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer, said in the release.
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Provincial health minister Dr. Bonnie Henry was asked this week if B.C. would follow the lead of Ontario and Alberta in giving immune-compromised people including chemotherapy patients and organ-transplant recipients a second COVID vaccine dose within three to four weeks. “At the moment, no,” Henry said Monday. “The best protection for everybody is for more people to be immunized, to have that higher level of protection from a single dose and reduce the risk in our communities by reducing the amount of virus that’s circulating in our community.” Henry said the B.C. Centre for Disease Control is “monitoring vaccine effectiveness in every single person … so, if we start to see breakthrough infections or that the vaccine effectiveness is waning in certain populations, we can change our strategy, but we have not seen that yet.”
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Thousands of Canadians failed to undergo proactive cancer screening or diagnosis of possible cancers last year because of the pandemic, leading some doctors and advocates to fear a future surge in advanced tumors and deaths.
Data obtained by the National Post from two provinces and a report issued by a third show that proactive screening of patients without symptoms, and diagnosis of those suspected of having cancer plummeted in the first months of the coronavirus crisis.
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