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Some provincial authorities saw encouraging signs in the fight against COVID-19 on Monday, even as experts warned that it's too soon to draw conclusions from the data and provinces scrambled to deal . . .
The Quebec government's announcement that it would suspend the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine angered many in the province but a McGill immunologist is making the case that it was the right call.
MONTREAL -- As soon as the Quebec government announced it would take the Pfizer COVID vaccines reserved for second doses, and distribute them so they would be able to immunize more people in high-risk groups, Dr. Donald Vinh of McGill University said misinformation started to spread. “I actually heard people in my institution say the second dose was cancelled, and I said that’s not correct. There is no plan by any government -- by the provincial or federal governments -- to cancel the second dose," said Vinh. Appointments for booster shots will, however, be delayed beyond the three...
MONTREAL — A group of seniors at one of the first long-term care homes in Quebec to receive COVID-19 vaccines have threatened to sue the provincial government if they don’t receive their second doses in the coming days. A formal notice sent to Quebec’s premier and health minister dated Tuesday said residents of Montreal’s Maimonides Geriatric Centre consented to be vaccinated only with the understanding that they would receive two doses according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Quebec changed its vaccine strategy last week to administer all the doses it receives instead of holdi...
MONTREAL -- Now that many residents at Maimonides Geriatric Centre who wanted a COVID vaccine have gotten one, health authorities have a new challenge on their hands: addressing the vaccine hesitancy that exists among its employees. “It is a super-priority,” the associate CEO of the West-Central-Montreal CIUSSS told CTV News during a phone interview. Francine Dupuis confirmed that while 95 per cent of residents agreed to be inoculated, only 35 to 40 per cent of employees have signalled a desire to get the shots, a rate that she says “is very low.” “Every effort is on the tab...