Trudeau offers sombre Christmas message but says 500,000 vaccine doses are coming early in the new year
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged today that Christmas won t be the same this year, with wide swaths of the country under COVID-related lockdowns, he said there s reason for optimism in 2021 now that hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses are expected to arrive early in the new year.
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Roughly 375,000 Canadians should be vaccinated with the two-dose Pfizer shot by the end of January
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 1:03 PM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens during a press conference in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.(Justin Tang/Canadian Press)
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After being administered a COVID-19 vaccine, in the case you experience severe side effects, there is basically no one to blame in a United States court of law. The federal government has bestowed companies including Pfizer and Moderna immunity from liability in the event that something accidentally goes wrong with the receipt of vaccines.
Vaccine Makers Exempted From Liability
According to Rogge Dunn, a Dallas labor and employment attorney, It is very rare for a blanket immunity law to be passed. Pharmaceutical companies typically aren t offered much liability protection under the law, reported CNBC.
They would not be held accountable for their novel coronavirus vaccine s side effects when tested on volunteers.
Canada to get 500,000 Pfizer COVID-19 doses in January, PM Trudeau says By Steve Scherer and Allison Martell
FILE PHOTO: Canadian PM Trudeau attends first COVID-19 vaccinations in Ottawa
OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada will receive about a half million doses of the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine in January and the rollout of the shots is going as planned, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, as some areas braced for possible new restrictions.
Canada began inoculations on Monday with the Pfizer vaccine, and will receive about 255,000 total doses in December, slightly more than the 249,000 announced earlier this month, Procurement Minister Anita Anand said.
Federal officials to deliver more details about COVID-19 vaccines rollout
Government officials will be providing more details about Canada s mass inoculation program later today, following news the country could receive tens of thousands of more doses by month s end.
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Posted: Dec 16, 2020 10:20 AM ET | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
Minjung Choi, associate director of care at Fountain View Care Community, gets a dose of Pfizer s vaccine at a clinic in Toronto on Tuesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would receive up to 168,000 doses of the two-dose Moderna vaccine before the end of December.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
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Canada has secured the earlier than expected arrival of more COVID-19 vaccine doses, a welcome bright light for health officials, but one they say won’t stop a growing surge in cases
before the holidays.
Across the country, the average number of daily new COVID-19 cases continued to climb on Tuesday and is up by more than 2,000 from just a month ago. In Ontario, hospitals have been told to activate emergency plans in anticipation of a spike in the number of COVID-19 patients.