MONTREAL Quebec’s director of national health said he’s still not sure when the province will begin administering COVID-19 booster shots 43 days since officials started injecting people with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Dr. Horacio Arruda said Tuesday that while he doesn’t want Quebecers to wait more than seven weeks to receive a booster shot, he said he was still waiting to hear back from government scientists studying the efficacy of the vaccine among those who received their first of two injections.
Quebec has taken a different approach from other provinces, focusing on giving a first dose to as many people as possible before giving anyone a second, a strategy that Arruda maintains will save more lives and keep more people out of hospital at a time when vaccine supplies are limited.
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