To receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the pharmacy you must be: A resident of Alberta with a valid Alberta Health Care Card 5 years of age and older Minors under 18 years of age require written or verbal consent from a parent or guardian. ...
In Alberta, some 79 per cent of people over the age of 12 have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to 84 per cent across Canada. Some 71 per cent of Albertans have received both doses of the vaccine, while across Canada the number sits at 77 per ...
Dr. Darren Markland, an intensive care physician in Edmonton who was also on the panel, said the government should consider vaccine passports and a circuit-breaker lockdown, which is a tight set of restrictions for a limited amount of time to curb ongoing transmission of COVID-19....
Vancouver Coastal Health said it has “successfully put in measures to thwart” attempts by people to get the vulnerable to take the vaccine for them. It did not elaborate on those measures. “Fraudulent vaccination records are being removed from the provincial immunization registry...
Vaccine effectiveness can be estimated using a variety of data sources including diagnostic codes from physician billing claims, public health records, reportable disease and laboratory databases. We sought to determine if diagnostic codes from billing claims (administrative data) are adequately sensitive ...
Vancouver Coastal Health said it has “successfully put in measures to thwart” attempts by people to get the vulnerable to take the vaccine for them. It did not elaborate on those measures. “Fraudulent vaccination records are being removed from the provincial immunization registry and...
“It is clear now that mandates like the restrictions exemption program are not as effective against the current COVID-19 situation as much as health officials expected,” Nixon said in a statement. “My position on vaccine mandates is that they need to end.” ...
Public health care costRubella vaccineDespite widespread use of a universal rubella standard, variability in rubella antibody titre can be observed between assays, particularly at the low end of the linear range. Here, we investigate the impact of a methodology change for rubella IgG from the ...