HALIFAX Ask five-year-old Sophie why she wants a COVID-19 vaccine, and she answers with surprising certainty considering her age. Cause I don t want to wear any mask! she exclaims. Her mom, Fallon Jones, says as a parent of two young children, the whole family is looking forward to what immunization could mean. I m looking for that little bit of normalcy so we can go back and see family again, and just get back to our lives, Jones says. But her children will have to wait, because only children aged 12 and up are approved to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the only one with approval for that age group at this point.
Nurse Carolyne Aremo prepares the COVID-19 vaccine at the start of a clinic on Thursday, April 8th in Upper Hammonds PlainsCommunications Nova Scotia
If you re a Nova Scotian between the ages of 40 and 54 hoping to book an appointment for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, keep trying.
That s the advice from the CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia, Allison Bodnar. It looks like everything local is full, she told NEWS 95.7 fill-in host Todd Veinotte just after 10 a.m. Friday. But what I can say is there will be a few more clinics added as the day goes on.
The province announced earlier this week that it would be expanding the eligibility for the AstraZeneca immunization.
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 29
A medical worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine at a centre in Antwerp, Belgium, on March 18, 2021. Nova Scotia has lowered the eligibility age for the vaccine to 40.(Yves Herman/Reuters)
Some pharmacists in Nova Scotia say we re about to find out how popular or unpopular the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is in the province.
Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia s chief medical officer of health, announced Wednesday the province is lowering the age for AstraZeneca eligibility to 40 years old.
His announcement comes at a time when there are 11,000 doses of the vaccine sitting in refrigerators across the province, with no appointments booked to get those shots in arms.
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