Why I am getting the Covid-19 vaccine Tuesday March 09 2021 Dear Tingasiga; I received my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine last week. The second dose will be administered early next month. This is one of four vaccines that have, so far, been approved for prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), better known as Covid-19, in Canada. The other three Covid-19 vaccines that have been approved for use in Canada are from Moderna, AstraZeneca-Oxford and Johnson & Johnson. My decision to get the vaccine was not a spur-of-the-moment action or simply because “everybody is getting it.” It was based on thorough reading of the scientific literature on the new coronavirus that has, so far, claimed the lives of nearly 2.6 million people worldwide in just more than one year, and the evidence-based information we have about the various vaccines that have been developed as one of the most effective measures against this virus.