Ontario announced this week that effective August 18, COVID-19 vaccines will be made available to kids who are 11 but turning 12 this year. But pharmacists were left hanging as they waited for an executive order authorizing this change.
WHO officials have repeatedly expressed concerns that variants will continue to crop up in areas where the virus goes unchecked and called for vaccine equity and "solidarity'' among countries.
A study by researchers from the University of New Brunswick posits that if the province allowed pharmacists to give two types of vaccine that they do now, it would save doctors enough time to see almost 3,000 more patients.
COVID-19 premature deaths represent many person-years of government pensions that no longer must be paid out. What will governments do with the savings?
