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After Alberta announced it would be expanding pharmacy care clinics, pharmacists in Manitoba are looking at what such a project could mean for our own health care system.
Appointments are now available for COVID-19 vaccines and flu shots at pharmacies and other locations in Manitoba, though local pharmacists say they're filling up fast.
Manitoba health care workers and researchers say low uptake of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine can be attributed to confusion and fatigue within the general public, and a lack of data on the impact of the virus from government.
Winnipeg Free Press Pharmacist Ryan Chan administers an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine dose at the Exchange District Pharmacy in Winnipeg. MANITOBA pharmacies and clinics that administer AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have to take matters into their own hands to make sure no doses spoil. MANITOBA pharmacies and clinics that administer AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have to take matters into their own hands to make sure no doses spoil. "It’s a logistical nightmare to prevent (wastage)," said Ryan Chan, owner of Exchange District Pharmacy on McDermott Avenue. The pharmacist prevented preciou...