Alberta receives 16,900 doses of Moderna vaccine
Moderna vaccine doses have arrived in Alberta and will be offered to residents in continuing care facilities.
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This initial shipment will be used to immunize residents at long-term care and designated supportive living facilities beginning with those at highest risk, as the Moderna vaccine can be more readily transported to continuing care sites.
The vaccine will be delivered to vaccine sites in Calgary, St. Paul, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Red Deer and Edmonton and will be offered to residents in continuing care facilities in those communities. In addition, the Moderna doses will be offered to residents at six First Nation congregate living facilities on-reserve. The Provincial Vaccine Depot will also receive vaccine for further distribution to rural and remote communities.
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Albertans are so used to bad news these days that even good news comes under suspicion.
But for mental health reasons alone, we should allow the remarkable progress on vaccines to push cynicism aside.
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On Dec. 2, Premier Jason Kenney said the first COVID-19 vaccine would start arriving in Alberta by Jan. 5.
That was momentarily controversial. Federal officials said they weren’t aware of that date.
But two weeks ahead of Kenney’s estimate, the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is already arriving in Alberta 3,900 doses to vaccinate ICU doctors and nurses, care centre workers and respiratory therapists.