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Winnipeg Free Press By: Tom Brodbeck | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021
Opinion
Public health officials could have some explaining to do if inmates in provincial jails and residents of homeless shelters receive COVID-19 vaccines before elderly Manitobans.
Winnipeg Free Press
Public health officials could have some explaining to do if inmates in provincial jails and residents of homeless shelters receive COVID-19 vaccines before elderly Manitobans.
As shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine begin to ramp up again next week following a global supply disruption, decisions about who is next in line for the life-saving jabs will move further into the spotlight.
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One of the province’s great struggles in their pandemic response has been an inability to take in a more global view of the health crisis.
They are staring so closely at the numbers that they cannot see the forest surrounding them.
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Information from a draft of an internal document on planning for the immunization of congregant living facilities was leaked on Wednesday. It looked at those living in congregant living facilities, putting prisons in the same category as seniors homes.
With the vaccine in short supply in Manitoba, the doctor in charge of the province s vaccine task force is trying to ease people s minds about vaccine waste.
In order to build capacity and prepare for an unprecedented immunization campaign, the province has once again expanded the professions that will be able to protect Manitobans by administering the COVID-19 vaccine, Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson announced.