OTTAWA—Health Canada is just “days away” from deciding whether to approve Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. If that happens it will add a fourth option to Canada’s efforts to immunize our way to an end to the pandemic and the first to require only one dose. Coupled with a new recommendation Thursday that provinces delay…
Health Canada ‘Days Away’ From Decision on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
March 4, 2021
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First Shipment of AstraZeneca Vaccine Arrives Amid Confusion Over Its Use for Seniors
OTTAWA—The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are set to arrive in Canada today as confusion persists over who should get it. Canada is to receive 500,000 doses of the vaccine, the third approved for use in Canada, from the Serum Institute of India. But questions about who should receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine continue…
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Romania Ships First Batch of AstraZeneca Vaccine to Moldova
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Top Doctor Says Vaccines Could Allow Toughest Restrictions to Lift Before September
OTTAWA—Canada’s chief public health officer says results from COVID-19 vaccinations are so encouraging that she thinks the need for massive lockdowns could be over before the end of the summer. “It will it even (be) before September, I think, depending on a number of factors, such as vaccine uptake, ongoing monitoring of other variants, and…
Health Canada Not Ready yet to Greenlight AstraZeneca Vaccine
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EU Regulator Authorizes AstraZeneca Vaccine for All Adults
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The federal government will roll out the first phase of CCP virus vaccinations in the coming weeks; however, there are concerns over Pfizer’s limited supply as primary vaccine choice Oxford-AstraZeneca faces scrutiny. Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has stressed that it is not a question of whether one vaccine is better than the other but…
Enough AstraZeneca CCP Virus Vaccine For ‘Entire Australian Population’: CMO
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82-Year-Old UK Man First Person in World to Get Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine
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