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OTTAWA — The timing of the Omicron outbreak in Canada may have hurt the uptake of pediatric vaccines at a time when kids need them most. Child-sized doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine were approved for children aged five to 11 on Nov.

Government figures say only 42.5 per cent of kids between the ages of five and 11 have received their first dose, while children younger than five years old are not eligible. 

As Omicron cases surge in Alberta, so does the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19.

Alberta's chief medical officer of health provides an update on COVID-19 and the ongoing work to protect public health.

Many Alberta parents have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 12 as regulators in Canada and the United States get closer to making a decision about whether to approve it.

Alberta is getting ready to roll out vaccines for kids between the ages of 5 and 11 if they are approved by Health Canada.

As Alberta speeds up rollout of second COVID-19 vaccine doses, concerns are mounting about a small but growing number of cases of the more infectious delta variant, and questions are emerging about the level of protection vaccines offer and which second dose is best for those who have a choice. Calgary is the hot spot in the province with 189 of 222 confirmed B1.617 cases, the majority of which are delta (B1.617.2), the variant behind the latest wave of COVID-19 in the U.K. And it's driving...

Kate Zinszer Results from an ongoing study led by an Université de Montréal public-health expert shed important light on the extent to which a small minority of 2- to 17-year-olds in the city had COVID-19 between October 2020 and April 2021. On average, 5.8 per cent of participating children were found to have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, the seroprevalence (proportion of children with antibodies in their blood) increased sharply over time. In October and...

Variants in Alberta schools: An in-depth look at climbing cases and spread Lauren Pullen © Eric Beck/ Global News A photo taken inside Sister Annata Brockman Catholic School in Edmonton on Sept. 2, 2020. Its been a debate and discussion throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic: is it safe for students, teachers and other staff to be in schools? Theres no simple yes or no answer, but now that more transmissible variants have taken over in Alberta, its a question thats being pus...

Posted: Apr 01, 2021 6:55 PM MT | Last Updated: April 2 A nurse tends to a patient suspected of having COVID-19 in an intensive care unit in this file photo. A total of 174 children have been admitted to Alberta hospitals over the course of the pandemic.(Evan Mitsui/CBC) Alberta pediatricians are bracing for what could come as variant cases spike, hospitalizations grow and the province falls into the grip of yet another wave of COVID-19. As of Thursday, 175 kids and teens have been hospitali...