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Saskatchewan’s government said COVID-19 vaccine uptake among priority health-care workers was so low that it’s re-allocating the doses to other people in the field.
But unions representing those workers argue that people with priority status still have not had a chance to access the vaccine, owing to a lack of time or bureaucratic hurdles.
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The Ministry of Health said Monday that vaccine uptake among its high-priority health-care workers was only 67 per cent well below the 85 per cent goal a Saskatchewan Health Authority vaccine hesitancy team said was the target for health-care workers. The province announced plans to re-allocate those doses to other nurses, doctors and frontline health-care staff.
Health-care unions say priority workers still waiting for vaccine
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