Residents at a trio of Quebec long-term care facilities have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated. But experts warn against making judgments about the vaccine based on a handful of cases.
MONTREAL Seven residents of a Montreal long-term care centre who received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have contracted COVID-19. Management at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre informed patients in a notice sent Tuesday, noting that residents were infected within the first 28 days of receiving their first of two vaccine doses. Quebec has […]
QUEBEC CITY A federal public health advisory board has recommended delaying the second dose of coronavirus vaccines, within a certain timeframe a model similar to what Quebec is following and which has made many Quebecers nervous. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) says health systems should try to give the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within 42 days of the first. But even NACI’s deadline, should Quebec choose to follow it, is coming up fast for some of Quebec s first recipients of the vaccine. Residents of the Maimonides Geriatric Centre, many of whom got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 14, 2020, threatened to sue the province after they were told they wouldn’t be receiving a second dose on-schedule.
Canada s largest province laid out its plan Wednesday to administer the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in all nursing and high-risk retirement homes by the middle of next month as it works to . . .