Burnaby youth with Down syndrome asks for fast-tracked vaccination against COVID-19
The parents of a 17-year-old with Down syndrome are urging the B.C. government to allow early access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Other advocates say the cohort is small enough to easily be fast-tracked.
Social Sharing This thing with COVID has got me all worried because it s taking forever, says Aaron Waddingham
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Posted: Jan 24, 2021 6:26 PM PT | Last Updated: January 25 Disabled people need to have the vaccine quicker, says 17-year-old Aaron Waddingham, seen here with his parents at their Burnaby home.(Mike Zimmer/CBC)
As B.C. rolls out its COVID-19 immunization program, there are concerns vulnerable populations are being left behind.
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Canada is scaling back its COVID-19 vaccination efforts because of a looming shortage of shots, with some provinces ordering a halt to nearly all first-dose appointments outside of the country’s hard-hit seniors’ facilities.
Provincial governments, hospital executives and local public-health officials spent the weekend scrambling to ration doses after vaccine-maker Pfizer-BioNTech announced on Friday that it would halve shipments to Canada in late January and the first three weeks of February while the company expands a manufacturing plant in Belgium.
B.C. advocate calls on province to prioritize people with Down syndrome for COVID-19 vaccine
People with Down syndrome are 10 times more likely to die from the virus, according to the Down Syndrome Resource Foundation, which has written to Dr. Bonnie Henry to ask if the vulnerable population can be moved up the vaccine queue.
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Andrew Bingham, 27, says while he tries to stay connected with friends using technology, COVID-19 has already cost him a job, sports, and his social life.(Submitted by the Down Syndrome Resource Foundation)
The provincial government has begun vaccinating British Columbia s most vulnerable against COVID-19 and an advocacy group for people with Down syndrome is hoping the group it represents will be added to this priority queue.
By Molly Burgess2021-01-12T10:53:00+00:00
LNG Canada is managing a careful and gradual return to construction activities at its project site in Kitimat, following a considerable holiday workforce reduction in December due to Covid-19.
The announcement follows the Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry introducing the Industrial Projects Restart Order, which applies to five major industrial projects in British Columbia, including the LNG Canada Project.
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th December (2020), the order prescribes a staged return to work and an incremental increase to the workforce, noting that “the current seasonal slow-down in large-scale industrial operations provides an opportunity to help break the cycle of transmission of Covid-19 associated with them.”