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Winnipeg Free Press Waste? So far not, but plenty of want As vaccine rollout ramps up, end-of-day surplus will become more of an issue for clinic and pharmacy staff; province hasn't issued formal guidelines By: Katie May | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 5, 2021 Winnipeg Free Press Four months in to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, a lack of supply is still Manitoba's main concern, but the province has yet to announce a plan to prevent unnecessary waste. Mass-immunization clinics don't use standby lists, which have been adopted in some o...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Guy Felicella says a small cash honorarium or coffee gift card always helped draw him into in a research study or public-health campaign during the two decades he spent living on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he once struggled to fuel a heroin and cocaine addiction. So he had no issue l...

Human rights law can provide a transparent and fair framework for vaccine allocations, researchers suggest. - All countries face the ethical challenge of how to allocate limited supplies of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines - Researchers say that governments should look to human rights principles and commitments to help them decide who should get priority for the first available doses of COVID-19 vaccine. - A human rights approach would include social vulnerability alongside medical vulnerability in decision-making because health is affected by social factors. - National vaccine roll-outs...

The COVID-19 pandemic has already deepened global inequality; now the vaccines are set to make the situation even worse. The world’s wealthiest countries are moving as fast as they can to inoculate their citizens with vaccines they have bought directly from the producers. But poorer countries, which cannot afford to do that, are having to wait for a World Health Organization body called COVAX to provide them with vaccines. Why We Wrote This We will be safe anywhere when we are safe everywhere. That pandemic truism is a reminder that we are all in this together and we will only get out of it...

Western University chancellor Linda Hasenfratz is no longer a member of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution task force after news broke that she travelled outside of Canada in December.