OTTAWA – Pfizer has asked Health Canada to approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 years old.
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Third-dose Thanksgiving: immunocompromised guests still wary of gatherings
Christiane Coopman’s Thanksgiving plans don’t include an elaborate stuffed turkey dinner or the excited chatter of her grandchildren around the dining table.
Ontario recommending Pfizer over Moderna vaccine for young adults
Ontario recommends only the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccine be used in the 18 to 24-year-old age group due to a rare symptom caused by the Moderna (Spikevax) vaccine.
More than 150,000 people in Canada experience ‘long COVID’ symptoms: report
More research is needed to understand the so-called “long COVID” condition and the burden it poses on the health-care system, a science advisory group said in a report Tuesday.
Poll: majority of Canadians favour vaccine passport for non-essential places
A new poll suggests eight out of 10 Canadians backed the notion of a COVID-19 vaccine passport in the days leading up to this week’s rollout of a certificate system in Quebec and news that Ontario would soon follow suit.
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines now preferred second dose for AstraZeneca recipients: NACI
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization said Thursday people who got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as their first dose should get Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for their second shot.
More Ontarians now eligible for earlier second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
More Ontarians will be able to book an accelerated second dose of COVID-19 vaccine starting today.
Feds expect Pfizer to start ramping up vaccine deliveries to Canada this week
OTTAWA — Canada’s sluggish COVID-19 vaccination efforts are expected to get a big boost starting this week as the federal government prepares for a ramp up in the delivery of shots from Pfizer-BioNTech following a month-long lull.
COVID variant spread currently low but likely to rise quickly, officials say
A snapshot of COVID-19 variants on a single day in January suggests levels of the more contagious strains in Ontario are low but that’s expected to change quickly, public health officials said Thursday.
‘We could use more doses, thousands more’: Gen. Hillier says Ontario will soon run out of vaccines
After a slow start to the vaccine roll out program, Ontario’s vaccine task force now says it will soon run out of doses if allocations for the province do not increase in short order.