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Dr. Bonnie's announcement about immunization plan.
Pfizer approved as vaccine for people 16 years or older be Moderna vaccine is undergoing review.
Dr. Bonnie announced that Pfizer and Moderna vaccine's efficacy rate, effective against Covid, is 94 to 95 percent. Test trials were done on people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
-Health Canada announcement:
“This is a critical milestone in our fight against COVID-19 and in our efforts to provide every Canadian with access to a vaccine. Canadians can have confidence in our rigorous review process and that the vaccine was only authorized after a thorough assessment,” says Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical advisor at Health Canada.
The approval comes with terms and conditions. The vaccine is only approved for use in people 16 years and older, officials say, adding they are still awaiting results for further clinical trials on children before approving its use for younger people.
I trust Health Canada's vaccine review process. very very stringent standards need to be met by a vaccine before Health Canada approves any new faccine. . rigorous review process for all vaccines in Canada.
-7 to 12 employees at Health Canada work over 2000 hours to review any new vaccine.
Dr. Bonnie is stressing the importance to continue following provincial health orders, maintaining social distancing, and wear masking given the initial amounts of vaccine to B.C, to Canada, is small.
She mentions that there is enough vaccine for about 380 thousand people by end of March in B.C. to protect front line health care workers, and the most vulnerable groups in our population. That group would include seniors living in care homes.
An Immunizations BC Operations Centre is set up as part of the immunization plan. BC CDC employees are part of this operations centre.
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Last edited by pastarocket; 12-09-2020 at 02:58 PM.
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