EDMONTON Nearly 75 per cent of eligible Albertans have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but the province is having trouble getting the rest to follow suit. First-dose uptake has been dropping since May, with Sunday marking the daily lowest amount administered since February. “With any sort of campaign, you’re going to see an initial push and big uptake, because it’s novelty. Now we’re in the hard slog,” said Dr. Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, co-lead of the AHS COVID Vaccine Task Force. “This is not surprising from my perspective that we would have to work harder for that last 10-20 per cent, especially in some of the age groups.”
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As the province continues the push to reach the 70 per cent mark of Albertans with their first COVID-19 vaccination dose, ideas around incentives are beginning to take shape.
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Hundreds attended anti-lockdown protests in Alberta in recent days, even as the province s per-capita COVID-19 case count became the highest in North America, and Premier Jason Kenney announced new restrictions.
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Protesters against public health restrictions gathered at several locations around Calgary over the weekend.(Submitted)
CALGARY It s been billed as a race between the variants and the vaccines and, right now in Alberta, one side has a sizeable lead. The province currently leads the country in active COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, renewing calls for tighter public health measures. We need to act now, Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz, a developmental biologist, told CTV News. What we re doing now is like a raging forest fire, and (the province is saying), maybe I ll put three buckets on it and see what happens . This week, Alberta s COVID-19 numbers climbed to heights only reached during the peak of the second wave in mid-December.