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Health Minister Christian Dubé said it will be possible to speed up the province’s vaccination rate by using up all available doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Until now, the province had been holding back half of the vials of vaccine delivered by Pfizer in order to ensure everyone is able to receive two doses, because the vaccine is most effective when two shots have been administered roughly two weeks apart.
In a statement released on its website Thursday, the health ministry said Pfizer had recommended the second doses of everyone who got vaccinated be kept aside, but in recent days, the delivery of the vaccine has become more dependable, so it is no longer necessary to do this.
The health ministry said Pfizer has signed off on this new method, as has the province’s immunization committee and Quebec’s public health institute, the INSPQ.
Quebec has received 87,500 vaccine doses, 55,000 of them developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and the rest by the company Moderna. The province is currently vaccinating the first two priority groups: residents of long-term-care homes known as CHSLDs, and health-care workers. The next groups to be targeted are those living in private old-age homes, those living in isolated communities, those 80 and older and those 70 and older.
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